Well, guys, I have to admit that I sometimes self spot as well. My reasons
are similar to those of Tree in his earlier post. Sometimes the band sounds
totally dead, and I wonder just how dead. If I give folks a frequency to
listen on, they may spend a few minutes just on that spot, to see if I come
out the QSB, while if they were tuning across at random, they would not do
that. I certainly pause for a while when I know for sure that someone is
calling on a particular freq.
I do it with guys I have worked many times before, and I use ON4KST's LF
Chat for the same reason. Being relatively new (8 years) to TB, I have a
lot to learn about propagation, but listening to the fading patterns on
signals I know to be present, has taught me a lot that I would not otherwise
have picked up.
No crime in that I hope.
There's no doubt that the Internet has CHANGED the way we do radio. Some of
it IS bad. I have received listener cards from guys who were 4 and 5 hours
into daylight when they claimed they heard me. It's not all bad though, so
let's all do it as it grabs us.
73, Greg, ZL3IX
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