[CQ-Contest] Excessive Bandwidth

[Richard F DDonna NN3W]

That works for the assisted hams, but not everybody is assisted......

73 Rich NN3W

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 12:24 PM Edward Sawyer <EdwardS at sbelectronics.com>
wrote:

> I believe if people used the announcements portion of DX Summit and not
> the remarks as part of a spot, it would provide a bread crumb trail for the
> contest sponsors and not reward the offender with a spot.  However since we
> are talking CW and spots are supposedly meaningless in the world of
> skimmers, the spot shouldn't be viewed as having rate boosting value - my
> personal experience is that they still do but what do I know.
>
> Ed  N1UR
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> I think that intentionally posting busted spots to the network is a bad
> idea.
>
> Perhaps making use of the classic spotting networks' announcement feature
> might work better ("WA1XYZ keyclicks 20m"), although I don't know that
> contest loggers are set up to easily make use of the announce functionality.
>
> But it would be a way to provide an automatically-logged way to register
> concern about a bad signal or other issues that doesn't reward the problem
> stations with the benefit of a spot.   The contest committee can grab such
> complaints from a node's logs, and check the band recordings when they
> become available.
>
> --
> Michael Adams | mda at n1en.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of K8MR via CQ-Contest
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Excessive Bandwidth
>
>  So bust his call in the spot, and then correct it in the comment field.
>
> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
>
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