[CQ-Contest] W/VEs spotting W/VEs

[David Robbins]

WARNING! WARNING!  IF YOU DON'T LIKE W/VE SPOTTING OTHER W/VE EITHER
DISCONNECT FROM THE SPOTTING NETWORK OR LEARN TO SET YOUR FILTERS BEFORE
22Z TONIGHT!  YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!  THIS WARNING WILL NOT BE REPEATED!

David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 

> 
> K8CC wrote :
> 
>  This past weekend I noticed W/VE stations (actually, Ws for the most
> part) spotting other W/VE stations over the DX spotting system.  (I'm
> not talking about K4MA, who I know was in 8P but spotting people under
> his call.) While I suppose there could be legitimate reasons for this,
> like spotting some rare W/VE state/province, I hardly think IL or PA
> falls into that category.  Since in almost every case, the station
> doing the spotting was in the same call area as the station being
> spotting, it would appear instead that these were attempts to attract
> DX stations to the frequency of these particular W/VEs.
> 
> 
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> 
>  What's with the "negative" responses to Dave's concern about packet??
> Every real contester knows that it is in the sprit of the rules that
> stations should not self-spot themselves. I think the same can be said
> that those who spot their friends falls in the same category. There
are
> enought real DX spots going across the packet screen to have these
> "garbage" spots cluttering up everything.
> 
>                         73's  Jeff
> 


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