[CQ-Contest] Manual spotting

[Kevan Nason]

Besides skimmer being off, how people solicit calls prevents them from
showing up on spots  from skimmers too. Spot use is integral to my LP
Little Pistol S&P operations. Yet turning the knob is part of my strategy
too because virtually EVERY time I stop using spots and spin the dial I
come across someone not spotted by the skimmers. People just using their
call without CQ or Test. People running non-stop and throwing their q in
every three or four times -- or the all too common never giving it at all
until people start yelling about it. People who say AB4XYZ TEST once and
then waiting 15 seconds without an answer before repeating it again. Those
are some of the things I remember off the top of my head. Things like that
happen a lot. As I said, I run across a non-spotted call almost every time
I spin the VFO. That's my reason for repeatedly saying to be competitive as
an Assisted Little Pistol you not only need to work spots, you also need to
spin the knob. I've picked up many mults that weren't spotted on the Band
Map.

Kevan N4XL
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Really?  for CW?  Then they are forgoing 99 percent of spots.

73, Pete N4ZR
Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
web server at<http://beta.reversebeacon.net>.
For spots, please use your favorite
"retail" DX cluster.

On 12/6/2021 6:02 AM, Richard F DiDonna NN3W wrote:
> A goodly number of users out there have skimmer spots turned off and
> only rely on "human" spots.
>
> 73 Rich NN3W
>
> On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 10:22 PM Stan Stockton <wa5rtg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I have no idea how any manual internet spots are of any value
>     whatsoever on CW.  If you call CQ you are instantly spotted by
>     every skimmer in the world who detects your signal.  You are
>     essentially “self spotting” if you call CQ.
>
>     How much perceived benefit is imagined for any number of internet
>     spots, real or otherwise as compared to maybe 10,000 real spots
>     created by the simple task of pressing F1 throughout a contest?
>
>     Stan, K5GO/ZF9CW