[CQ-Contest] arrl dx ssb spotting report

[Sherman Banks]

Packet spots should be treated like any outside tool you get for free - 
buyer beware.  Check the call.  Let's not go down the path of berating 
people for a few bad spots.  I have sent a few out over time.  It is 
certainly not intentional.  I always verify the call of the spot before 
working the station.  We should positively encourage improved accuracy 
and not negatively punish mistakes.

Self-spotting is a clear and intentional violation of rules and should 
be exposed and disciplined.  Self-spotting is way different than a 
mis-copied call.

Jimk8mr at aol.com wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 3/7/2007 2:44:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
> k1ir at designet.com writes:
> 
> 
> Almost as detrimental as self-spotting, busted spotting is the next  big 
> problem to deal with. Guys who can't copy and can't type should not be  passing 
> their errors on to the rest of the world. So, how about some  post-contest 
> comparisons of spotted calls against the SCP database? For those  who have posted 
> 50 or more spots during the contest, what percent appear to be  busted calls? 
> Listed from highest percent to lowest, that would be a good way  to expose the 
> worst and the best!
>  
> ********************************
>  
> Maybe I've just reached the age of being a cantankerous old codger, but I  
> think busted spots are good. 
>  
> To me contesting is not the game of working as many people as possible,  but 
> the game of *finding* and working as many people as possible.   Looking at 
> your spot window is not *finding* people in my mind.
>  
> Anyone lazy enough or dumb enough to work a busted spot (or waste time  
> trying) deserves what they get.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 73  -  Jim  K8MR
>  
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