[CQ-Contest] When do we spot? Should it be required?

[Gerry Hull]

I like the spotting advantage that RBN gives the little pistol on CW.

Self spotting is perfectly OK in my book.

About 10 years ago, I had an internet app called WhereRU.   It used the
N1MM broadcasts of rig frequency and put them up on a shared server.   This
is now coming full circle ... I see no reason why we should not let
everyone spot.

Of course ... there is a huge advantage to RBN:  A spot is useless if you
cannot hear the station.  I kind of like the idea of a swawk (of 70 WPM or
so CW)  (< 2 seconds) every once in a while during an SSB CQ, so that RBN
could identify a station, and provide propagation information.  It would be
neat to test that.

73, Gerry W1VE




On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Thanks for all the comments to my post.
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> In reading the many views, I think the easiest solution that doesn't change
> the spirit of contesting is to instill processes of spotting more
> consistently.  The encouragement of setting the software to automatically
> spot when logging Qs for those running assisted.  That simple thing would
> greatly even the playing field of spotting in SSB contests.
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> Opinions?
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> Ed  N1UR
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