[CQ-Contest] ARRL to allow self-spotting in contests

[Jim Brown]

On 2/18/2022 9:17 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
> It should have enhanced the hobby for all of us, especially for us 
> contesters since almost all of our transmissions come from keypresses in 
> a logging program anyway.

Over a period of ten years or more, K1JT and his team have developed an 
ever expanding suite of software for the exchange of minimal information 
a variety of difficult propagation conditions, each of which has its own 
challenges. FT8 is only one of those transmission modes. I use their 
modes in the manner they intended -- meteor scatter, tropo, ionospheric 
scatter, Es, and F2 on 6M; DXpeditions on the HF bands; difficult 
circuits on 160M; low power DX on 60M. I've yet to be drawn to HF 
contesting with it.

And their suite HAS enhanced the hobby for me a lot, and, I'd guess, for 
hundreds of thousands of hams stuck in apartments where even minimal 
antennas are a challenge.

73, Jim K9YC