[CQ-Contest] Re: self-spotting

[k1ttt at arrl.net]

> The point I am trying to make :
>
> a/ some people out there - including K1TTT -
> are extremely obsessed with spotting and slef appointed spot policing;
> always ready to point finger to "cheaters" with or without evidence;

at least i supply evidence rather than just pointing fingers

> b/ large number of spots are useless or spam anyway;

only if you don't know how to use them

> c/ if you like to help your local team / club
> keep your spots on local network. Otherwise it is contra productive
> and will work against you;

sharing is good, and it is amazing the information available from watching
world wide spots during a contest.

> d/ there is no evidence that more spots result in higher score;
> and spoting other people will definitely lower your ranking;

tell that to w3lpl and the other multis who show up at the top of the list
and make LOTS of spots.

> e/ although spots may increase QSO rate for K4, they would very often
> make things worse for rare DX - recent FB8 was perfect example;

stations that don't know how to handle pileups will be overrun eventually
with or without spots.  there were big pileups before packet, now they
just take a bit less time to develop.

> f/ there is a number of US East Coast stations - small but faithful flock-
> who no longer need receiver. Uninterrupted access to cluster is all they
> need;
> and I honestly doubt in their ability to S+P or God forbid, call CQ.
> Personally I find this viagra-style contesting boring - but hey - I am not
> here to judge :-)

to score well while using packet takes more skill than just calling cq. 
and what about the arguments last week that sought to limit cqing???  are
you saying we don't cq enough now?  so you want us to stop spotting, and
call cq more... very strange, and a very selfish way to operate.   maybe
you need to get some more contesting friends and find out what its like to
succeed as a team by helping each other a bit.

>
> 73 Nick vk1aa/2
>