[CQ-Contest] Spotting

[Alan Zack]

It would also help or encourage people to go to rare DX locations.  A 
DXpedition couldn't justify the expense and trouble if they sat and 
called CQ all day with a few S&P stations lucky enough to come across 
them answering their CQ.  By being spotted they will get more contacts 
and thus a higher score.  I can remember sitting portable DU calling CQ 
Contest for maybe 10 minutes with no replies, then one JA answered me, 
then in the next few minutes I had a mini pileup of JA's and HL's.  I'm 
sure it was because someone spotted me even if I didn't ask for them to 
do so.  Maybe I just sounded lonely.

Paul J. Piercey wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
>>[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of David 
>>Robbins K1TTT
>>Sent: December 23, 2006 14:49
>>To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Spotting
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>>>I beats me why anyone actively engaged in a contest who 
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>>finds a rare 
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>>>multiplier by S&P would want to alert his competitors so 
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>>that they can 
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>>>also work the rare mult !!
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>>Alerting competitors is a side effect we pay for having world 
>>wide connectivity on the network today.  Originally the 
>>networks were partitioned and used to alert fellow club 
>>members of new multipliers to help them and the club aggregate score.
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>This may have been a valid reason before the greatly expanded cluster
>network but now, with world wide availability and connectivity,I too have
>wondered why anyone would want to help another competitor. Then it occurred
>to me... not everyone is out to win.
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>73 -- Paul VO1HE
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