[CQ-Contest] Summary: Disruption of Emergency Communication during CQWW SSB contest

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:34 PM, David Robbins <k1ttt at verizon.net> wrote:

> WARNING!
>
> <quote>
> - Alarm messages in the DX Cluster Network
> Very good idea! Can be implemented immediately for no cost, as such an alert can be initiated by any operator with internet access and it is supposedly effectively alerting at least all multi-op and assisted op participants in a contest.
> </quote>
>
> No, it isn't that easy.  the one example i saw would not propagate to all users, it probably wouldn't even get to many nodes, and if put in on the wrong source wouldn't get to most of the active contesters on the cluster network.  To get past node and user filtering in an organized way it will take some testing and maybe the cooperation of all the world's sysops.

It's even harder than that.  Many contesters just have an announce or
bandmap window up and are not even looking at the actual spots as they
come through.  Thus any ANNouncements and/or DX spots comments would
likely be ignored, and if someone spotted, say 9Y4ZC on 14300,
everyone who needed the 9Y mult would jump there and start calling
without listening first.

73 - Jim AD1C

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us