Actually, the impact is even less than John suggests - the article on
the RBN web site is badly outdated - last year in CQWWCW the RBN posted
well over 10 million spots in the 48 hours. From the self-spotting
station's standpoint, doing so would be much more impactful during SSB
contests.
73, Pete N4ZR
On 3/1/2023 6:59 AM, K3TN via CQ-Contest wrote:
I'm not a fan of the self spotting decision for HF contests, but I don't think
it approaches mayhem - more just another level of erosion of old norms.
The Reverse Beacon Network
(https://www.reversebeacon.net/pages/Using+the+RBN+33) quotes an average rate
of about 20 spots per second during a major CW contest, which works out to
roughly 3.5M spots over a 48 hour contest.
There are 288 10 minute segments in a 48 hour contest. If 5,000 ops were
self-spotting every 10 minutes for the entire 48 hours, it would only be about
1M spots over the contest duration - and that is a very high estimate.
So, roughly a 30% increase in spotting volume is not going to be a big deal in
a CW contest. In a phone contest, the spot volume is so low and the volume
won't approach that of a CW contest.
73 John K3TN
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