[CQ-Contest] cqww rtty (and tqp) spotting report

[Keith Dutson]

I am not one of the TxQP officials but have direct contact with the
leadership.

Setting a rule to outlaw self-spotting will surely result in an extra burden
for the log checker(s).  Also, one can effectively self-spot by sending
email to a third party.  Such action would be difficult to detect.

Providing a new class for self-spotting is another possibility.  However,
this means even more work for the log-checking function.

73, Keith NM5G

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of George Fremin III
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 12:41 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] cqww rtty (and tqp) spotting report

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 11:59:53PM -0000, David Robbins K1TTT wrote:
> =================================================================
> 
> Cheerleader report:
> 
> How this works...  the number in the 'spots' column is how many spots 
> the spotter made for that dx station.  the total column is how many 
> spots the spotter made that weekend.  and the pct is what percentage 
> of spots the spotter made were for only that one station.  so ki5dr 
> made 105 spots over the weekend, and 104 of them were for k5na/m.
> 
> spotter	dx		Spots	total	Pct
> KI5DR		K5NA/M	104	105	99.05  mobile in tqp
> 
> WOW! 104 spots in TQP by ki5dr for k5na/m!  that has to be a record of 
> some kind!  Oh, and in case you were wondering, the 1 spot not for 
> k5na was a typo where he spotted '142' on a frequency of 71000... then 
> of course corrected it to be 14271 and the right call.

KI5DR was one of the ops in the K5NA/M effort.

http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2006-09/msg01066.html

Apparently self spotting is allowed in the Texas QSO party - maybe even
encouraged.  So this was not against the contest rules. I guess Scott could
have even done those spots logged in as as K5NA and not broken the contest
rules.  

Had I know that self spotting was allowed I guess I would have made sure the
op at my station was doing it and I can only guess that next year you will
see *more* Texas QSO Party spots since the rules allow for it.  I keep
thinking I will do this contest one year - I see now I will need to make
sure I that I get the contest software that I use will spot my call and
frequency every time I call CQ.

Just to be clear - I think the TQP leadership should seriously reconsider
allowing self spotting.


-- 
George Fremin III - K5TR
geoiii at kkn.net
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr


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