[CQ-Contest] Packet Solution - Partial?

[Ben Coleman NJ8J]

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Eric Hilding wrote:

| I'm not on packet yet, but I know computer software can be used to
| S-O-L-V-E problems (or at least partially), and most likely "spotting"
| as an animal will never become an extinct species.

Technical solutions for social problems can occasionally work, but by
and large they just present another hurdle that the cheating-inclined
will figure out how to hurdle.

| 2. If 500 spots come in for DX station ABC123 in any given "rolling"
| hour, the telnet/whatever "central station" software ONLY posts 1 spot
| for that station within that "rolling" hour, for ABC123 spots within ±
| 1Khz (this solves any fractional frequency derivations by different
| TXRX's).

There is no "central station" - packet spotting is a distributed
application, and there is no central control.

Ben

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