[CQ-Contest] Self-spotting gotcha

[Jim McDonald]

Another reason to get spots from farther away is to see spots of stations in your skip zone, so you don't QRM them by picking a run frequency close to them.

Jim N7US


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I think it’s a BIG mistake to filter spots to only allow spots from close by stations.  I would not trust the “neighbors’ (or for that matter one only a thousand miles away) crappy antenna on his skimmer RX to hear what I hear.  Perhaps with a bigger antenna but there are lots of times I have worked stations that are not even spotted on this continent.

73…Stan, K5GO

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> On Dec 3, 2022, at 11:12 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I suspect that many of us filter incoming spots so we will only see those originating where we can also reasonably expect to hear the spotted station.  For example, I only see spots from states surrounding mine.  Presumably, a self-spot coming from station X will appear on the cluster network as originating at Station X's location, rather than at a distant location where Station X might logically be heard.
> 
> In a way, this goes right to the principle that self-spotting violates , by making the self-spotted station be the spotter, rather than someone actually receiving its signal.
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> 73, Pete N4ZR