[CQ-Contest] Spotting - not

[Mats Strandberg]

Thanks Gerry for QSO on 40 meters!

RBN spotted VY1AAA, but if I remember just some US skimmers, so decided to
spot you on DX Summit.

Now realized I was one if rare exceptions who spotted you. Some years ago,
a station from YT would have been manually spotted extensively....

Times (and Technology) are indeed  changing the rules of the game...

73 de RM2D (SM6LRR), Mats

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 at 05:20, Gerry Hull <gerry at yccc.org> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > -          When did I start CQing on 80, 40, 20, 15?
> >
> > -          When did I get spotted?
> >
> > -          Did I notice any big burst of calls?
> >
> >
> >
> > I compared those notes with a look at the DX Summit to see how the spots
> > compared.
> >
> >
> >
> > Keep in mind that I was likely the ONLY Vermont station CQing for many if
> > not most of the time.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > If you run assisted, what is your comment?
> >
> >
> >
> > 73
> >
> >
> >
> > Ed  N1UR
> >
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