[CQ-Contest] Self-spotting gotcha

[dimitri cosson]

Hi guys,

<<<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.
>>>

Totally agree with Stan, NEVER filter RBN spots and you 'll be surprised by what you're able to hear/work while it was spotted from another continent. It's how I'm contesting as assisted and, even as low power entry, it allows me to work many multipliers not spotted from EU.

73, Dimitri F4DSK/ TM3Z 

⁣Transmited from my Morse Telegraph​

Le 3 déc. 2022 à 20:08, à 20:08, Stan Stockton <wa5rtg at gmail.com> a écrit:
>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
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 3, 2022, at 11:12 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> -- 
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
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