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Re: [WriteLog] Outgoing Spots Only? (SPAMSPOTTING)

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Subject: Re: [WriteLog] Outgoing Spots Only? (SPAMSPOTTING)
From: "FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com>
Reply-to: FireBrick <w9ol@billnjudy.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 17:26:24 -0600
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 and then add in:
all the 
"That's NOT DX, stop spotting states!"
or "Your not obeying the band plan"
or...
"Your splattering
You have klix
your out of the band"

I think my monitor might melt down.



 PM
>> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Outgoing Spots Only?
>>
>> That's what NCCC did. And it worked for them. 
> 
> Let's just do a little math.  
> 
> In my circle of contesting friends, about 50% are using WriteLog.  Now that
> seems a little bit high percentage for a "national average", so let's
> assume a percentage of half that, or 25%.  And let's further assume that
> only half those users are connected to a cluster, or 12.5%.  .
> 
> So how many spam-spots would 12.5% of this weekends contesters have
> generated?  
> 
> Looking at the 3830 scores so far, the highest number of QSO's worked was
> 1454 by W6YI.  Presuming he worked every station available all weekend,
> multiplying 1454 by .125 comes out to 182 stations as the potential
> universe of spam-spotters.  
> 
> If these stations worked an average of 300 Q's they'd spam-spot 54,600
> spots over the 30-hour contest, or about one every 2 seconds on average. 
> This in addition to all the spots generated by the remaining 75% of us who
> wouldn't be equipped to spam-spot.
> 
> Bad idea!
> 
> YMMV.
> 
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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> 
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