[CQ-Contest] Posting Scores

[K8MR via CQ-Contest]

 From my experience, the decision to spot is largely a judgement of what 
one thinks would be interesting for somebody to work. In my time at the 
K8AZ multiop efforts, when on the multiplier station, or listening on a 
band we aren't using at the time, I'll spot Asian or Pacific mults, but 
I rarely bother to spot common Europeans.

I sense the same thing (by checking spots after the contest) in 
domestic contests, that guys in North Dakota or Wyoming get a lot more 
spots than us folks in Ohio.

On a different subject, today in Florida, not inspired to drag out the 
KX3 and antennas to do QRP on SSB to give out the rare K8 multiplier, I 
checked into the WPX scoreboard. It was about as interesting to a 
non-participating person as is watching paint dry. (That's paint on 
walls, not drying body paint which can be quite interesting  :-)  ).  I 
can't imagine trying to introduce somebody to contesting by having them 
watch a glorified spread sheet.

Now maybe if we could hear streaming audio from CN2AA . . .


73  -  Jim  K8MR




-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net>
To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, Mar 28, 2015 7:23 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Posting Scores




Clearly, virtually no one is spotting every station they hear in an SSB
contest, so what is the decision making that people use to decide 
whether to
spot or not - when contesting assisted?


Ed  N1UR (NV1N)  All spots appreciated.