[CQ-Contest] Self spotting rationale

[Mirko S57AD]

Contrary, clusters were established by contesters and hijacked by DXers, 
as far as I recall.

73 Mirko, S57AD

Michael Coslo pravi:
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Zoli Pitman HA1AG wrote:
>
>   
>> Andrew wrote:
>>     
>>> how
>>> useful would the spotting network be during a contest if everyone
>>> repeatedly spotted themselves non-stop for 48hrs?  It would be  
>>> chaos and
>>> the cluster would probably fall over within minutes!
>>>       
>> this sounds like a good idea to me... even better if this code  
>> included
>> randomized calls and frequencies.. :-)
>>     
>
>
> Yikes! You've just described a small denial of service attack. It's  
> also the equivalent of jamming. Really bad idea, even to joke about.
>
> In addition, the DX clusters are there for DX'ers. That they get  
> hijacked by contesters is one thing, but when we talk about posting  
> bogus info, or to bring them down, that's not a good thing.
>
>
> -73 de Mike N3LI -
>
>
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