[CQ-Contest] NS3T's wild accusation

[Ron Notarius WN3VAW]

Tom,

My experience was exactly the opposite -- I had a lot of DX stations (I
stopped counting at 30) ask me to put them on the cluster.  I had 2 or 3
that seemed perturbed when I declined -- one S5 station called me a, hmmm,
compared me to a portion of the human anatomy that rarely see much sunshine
(and maybe I am sometimes, aren't we all, but that still does not strike me
as an appropriate transmission during the contest!).

Personally, I found NS3T's statistics interesting but inconclusive.  Since
we don't know who actually generated the spots, proving self-spotting
without further details would be difficult.   Be so as it may, while I think
a rule clarification regarding soliciting for or self-spotting may be worth
considering for most contests, I don't know what more can be done.

73, ron wn3vaw

"There's No Crying in Baseball!"
-- Jimmie Dugan, "A League of Their Own"

----- Original Message -----
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 03:32:06 +0100
From: Tom Osborne <w7why at harborside.com>
Reply-To: w7why at harborside.com
Organization: Amateur Radio W7WHY
To: CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NS3T's wild accusation

Dave Tucker wrote:
>
> I made a concentrated effort to spot stations during the WPX
>whenever I was in S&P mode.

Hi Dave

Did you ask these stations if they wanted to be spotted??  I've
read posts where lots of DX stations don't want to be spotted
during a contest.  Slows the rate down considerably.  Maybe we
can have a new category  MSBASDAC--Most Spots By A Station During
A Contest.
Tom W7WHY