[CQ-Contest] Running vs SP (Was Self Spotting)

[Tom Smith]

SP must be ok.  There is even an SPDX contest this weekend and an SP club.
Must be the opposite of the CQDX contest.  Now is that the Self Spotting DX
contest or the Seach and Pounce DX contest or just some bad Polish joke?
OMG, I'm seeing spots--orange spots, or are they oranges?

No joke, the FQP is just over 22 days away.

(We can only hope this thread doesn't last that long)

Tom
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Subject: [CQ-Contest] Running vs SP (Was Self Spotting)


> I'm not penalizing broadcast stations that sit on
> one frequency making 100 Q's per hour; their
> year-to-year scoring would not be changed.
>
> I'm suggesting that non-CQing stations should receive
> 2x points for those contacts, because S&P rates are
> one half of the run rates.
>
> That would bring parity in scores for those that can
> run with those that can't, but still work just as hard.
>
> Barry
>
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> As a "broadcast station who makes 100 QSOs" and hour I find your ideas not
> totally accurate.
>
> My score would be changed
>
> A good operator who is having a 200 plus hour is working just as hard as
one
> who is S/Ping, but in a different way.  Not every station who calls in is
20
> over and in the clear.  We too are hearing lots of QRM/QRN and QSB.
However,
> we battling all those while trying to pull S2 signals out of the crud to
> continue the run. We are the ones who work just as hard to as the guys who
are
> working QRP.  We have to copy the ESP signals that we receive.
>
> While I am working that run on 20 at around 100 stations an hour, I am
also
> trying to listen with my left ear on 15 or 10 to pick up additional
stations,
> timing my breaks in CQing to pick up another station.  Did you ever try
it?  I
> have been doing it for five years and it is still difficult.
>
> CQing is score limiting if the operator is not a good one.  A good
operator
> knows when to stop CQing and start S/Ping.  If he continues to call CQ and
his
> rate drops below what the S/P rate would be, he is being penalized. Many
times
> the "big guns" go S/Ping.  A good S/P station can easily do 100 stations
an
> hour. If you are CQing on one radio, your S/P efforts are hindered, so
that
> hurts you in the S/P. Sometimes it is necessary for the big stations to do
> nothing but S/P.
>
> As to your thoughts about point differentials for the running stations
versus
> the S/P stations.  Why should running stations be penalized for having
> operators with the skills and the hardware to run?  In the end, the
differential
> would be impossible to score...a scorer's nightmare.
>
> I suggest you check out the Sprints if you are not happy with the
traditional
> contests.  It would be a way to test your skills against the "broadcast
> stations" who CQ a lot, but can't in those.  Another alternative is to
sign up with
> a team at a multi-multi or take a trip to the Caribbean and see how much
work
> it really is to maintain a productive running frequency.
>
> Bill K4XS
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