[CQ-Contest] cq self spot

[Ed Sawyer]

There is confusion on what people mean when they say "spot".

 

1)      I am looking at DX Summit and I don't see myself spotted.  Reason,
RBN is not directly tied into DX Summit.  W3LPL is a robot with filters that
picks up RBN "spots" and re-spots them on DX Summit.  But only does so on
certain DXCC countries.  Not sure which.

2)      I am looking at a cluster node and immediately see myself spotted.
That's because the cluster node is getting direct feeds from the RBN.

 

Why isn't DX Summit directly getting RBN spots?  No idea.

 

I hope this settles the confusion.

 

73

 

Ed  N1UR