[CQ-Contest] assisted

[Barry]

Au contraire.

First, I always verify the callsign myself.  I prefer not to be dinged 
for a bad call.  If the station doesn't ID within 2 or 3 QSOs, I move on.

Second, being in the same category as you from my home station, I prefer 
to avoid the Cluster spots, as there are too many blind callers.

Barry W2UP

On 8/17/2018 10:11 AM, Michael Clarson wrote:
> As a member of the SOCA (LP) crowd (Single Op, Crap antenna, low power) I
> find spots quite useful to point out stations I have already worked so I
> don't have to stick around  10 mins for an ID. --Mike, WV2ZOW
>
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:18 AM Ben Coleman NJ8J <nj8j at benshome.net> wrote:
>
>> On 8/16/2018 3:43 PM, Holger Hannemann wrote:
>>> The biggest assistance one can get in a contest are DX cluster spots! The
>>> moment you got spotted you've got assistance, period!
>> OTOH, for us pop-gun (or, as I call it, Bedsprings Brigade (as in
>> compared to the tower-and-beam crowd, we might as well be loading up old
>> metal bedsprings)) stations, there's not much advantage to the spotting
>> network.  We typically can't run much, so we're primarily S&P.  And when
>>   a station we're trying to work is spotted, it makes working them a lot
>> harder.  We're better off trying to tune in new stations by ourself (in
>> hopes of catching them before they're spotted) than to hunt spots where
>> there's likely to be more competition than we can handle.
>>
>> Ben
>> --
>> Ben Coleman nj8j at benshome.net
>>   "I love the way Microsoft follows standards.  In much the
>> same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
>>                                              Paul Tomblin
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