[CQ-Contest] Spotting - not

[Steve Lott]

I did spot stations I worked
Not all of them mind you
I manually spotted those that were either not busy and or had a really good
rhythm or pattern to their exchange

There were more than a few I did not spot because they were
obviously not hearing USA, too busy on the
other radio (SO2R)(took too long to answer my call after their automated CQ)

I did not set N1MM+ to autospot my search and pounce Q's
because I was working part time casual and wanted to spot those deserving
stations :)

Cheers!
steve
KG5VK



http://www.KG5VK.com
My Ham Radio Friends


On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:19 AM, Peter Voelpel <dj7ww at t-online.de> wrote:

> As I understand, the cluster network is connected with the RBN and so all
> cluster nodes get the same number of spots unless there are filters set.
> I does not matter whether is is a packet, web or RBN originated spot.
>
> 73
> Peter, DJ7WW
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Ed
> Sawyer
>
> When I say that I wasn't spotted on DX Summit, it has NOTHING to do with
> RBN.  I of course was picked up on RBN.  It obvious within 2 of 3 CQs there
> is a pile that dies down after maybe 5 - 10 mins.
>
>
>
> What I am referring to is DX Summit.  Remember DX Summit?  It's the place
> that picks up the manual spots.
>
> Those that doubt it, ask yourself this?   With skimmers populating bandmaps
> constantly, why would you all of a sudden get what sounds like a packet
> cluster pileup after having been on a frequency for over an hour?  Its
> because it's a packet cluster pileup - from a manual spot.
>
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