[CQ-Contest] Whither CQQ WW?

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Jim, that's not the point - what I was saying is that when a loud big 
station is CQing continuously, but getting approximately 1 spot every 15 
minutes, one can only imagine what happens to the non-"beacons".  It's 
strictly a measure of how few people have N1MM's spotting feature turned 
on, and a suggestion that they do so.

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

On 10/31/2022 10:17 AM, James Cain wrote:
> If you have a small, impotent station, and you are SMART, you tune around
> and call the stations you can hear.
>
> Why on earth would somebody in, say, Europe, with a little station, need a
> spot for a beacon like W3LPL?
>
> cain K1TN
>
> OK, I'll bite.  I briefly operated CQWW SSB remotely at a friend's station
> yesterday, and was appalled by the small number of spots being generated.
> Take a look at DXSummit for W3LPL, who appears to be multi-2 this year.  Up
> until 15 minutes ago, since they went to 15 and 10 at 1200Z, where you can
> assume they are running constantly, I count only 16 spots (in 3+ hours).
>
> What is really sad is that somewhere around half the QSOs in CQWW are made
> using N1MM Logger+, which has a one-check Config menu option to "spot all
> S&P QSOs."  It costs you nothing, in effort or anything else, to enable
> this option, and has no effect on your Unassisted status if you turn it on.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at<https://reversebeacon.net>.
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 10/30/2022 9:08 AM, James Cain wrote:
>
> In the run-up to this weekend's CQ WW DX Phone contest, there was not a
> single post on this reflector about it. NOT ONE. Not an operating question,
> nor a rules or technical question.
>
> cain K1TN
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