[CQ-Contest] Assisted - still trying to get it right

[Alfred J. Frugoli (KE1FO)]

Steve,

Notice that my post stated "the first time a dx is spotted on the 
cluster during the contest" and I noted it happened multiple times 
throughout a contest.  You'd be hard pressed to scan through a band on 
the 2nd rig, find lots of juicy double mults, run for a while and come 
back to not one, but several of them, minutes after they were spotted 
for the first time in the contest.

Not every so unassisted who works a station that was spotted on the 
cluster is bending the rules - but there are a few circumstances where 
"something is fishy".

73 de Al, KE1FO

steve.root at culligan4water.com wrote:
> Tree said:
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> "There are other indicators - like what is the frequency profile of the 
> QSOs. For example, if the frequencies are jumping around instead of 
> monotonic - it could be an indicator that something is up."
> Let's be very careful here. Last weekend I didn't "first call' very many stations with the second radio. I would make note of where they were and come back when propagation was more favorable. I'd hop all over the place calling these guys. How would this be distinguishable from a spot chaser jumping all over a band? In addition, I live in Minnesota. The DX I can hear is going to be spotted, and spotted often. There's a very good chance that I am going to work a station near the time it gets spotted. How can you prove that I was using the Cluster? Or more importantly, how could I possibly prove I wasn't? These "indicators" have to take into account operating styles as well as QTH.
> 73 Steve K0SR
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