[CQ-Contest] Spotting - not

[Gerry Hull]

KE1J was very active from K2LE in Vermont.

In CW contesting, the need to spot has virtually been eliminated by the RBN.

In fact, if you are not looking at RBN spots, you are at a disadvantage.

This has a detrimental effect on SSB, as it is not automated.

However, for Assisted operating in the real world, RBN is here to stay.

RBN hurt us at VY1AAA, as we were not manually spotted much, and prop,
especially in Europe, was not so
hot, so we were not picked up by RBN.

The is game in CW contesting now.

73, Gerry W1VE
One of the VY1AAA Gang



On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Apparently, no one wants to spot any more.  They think that everyone is
> using skimmer so what's the point?  I decided to make some notes this time
> in ARRL DX.
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> -          When did I start CQing on 80, 40, 20, 15?
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> -          When did I get spotted?
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> -          Did I notice any big burst of calls?
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> I compared those notes with a look at the DX Summit to see how the spots
> compared.
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> Keep in mind that I was likely the ONLY Vermont station CQing for many if
> not most of the time.
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> I found that in MANY cases - I was running for more than an hour, in some
> cases, close to 2 hours! Before being spotted.  Worked 100 - 300 stations
> before being spotted.
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> I also had a very direct correlation of a noticeable burst of activity when
> spotted.  That means that there was a noticeable group of people not using
> skimmer that were assisted.  Why don't those people spot?
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> If you run assisted, what is your comment?
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> 73
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> Ed  N1UR
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