[CQ-Contest] ARRL DX SSB Contest - Self-spotting is allowed in ALL entry categories, including UNASSISTED

[Björn Ekelund]

What does the number of spots have to do with the usefulness of the dx
cluster?

All modern loggers do a far better job than any human so staring at the
spot flow in text form became an obsolete practice years ago.

Björn SM7IUN

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:09 AM Ron Notarius W3WN via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> You are kidding, right?  Or do you really want operators to flood the
> spotting network and make it useless?  Is that the point?
> IMHO, not that anyone ever asks me anything, just because something is
> permitted doesn't make it right.  Self-spotting in a contest is just that.
> 73, ron w3wn
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hachadorian <k6ll.dave at gmail.com>
> To: reflector cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tue, Feb 28, 2023 5:38 pm
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] ARRL DX SSB Contest - Self-spotting is allowed in
> ALL entry categories, including UNASSISTED
>
> Recent changes to ARRL Contest rules allow self-spotting in all
> categories, including Unassisted Categories.
> https://groups.arrl.org/g/ARRL-Contesting/message/1499
>
> Only Assisted Classes may USE spotting info to find QSO's, but ANYBODY
> can GENERATE spots, including self-spots.
>
> It seems logical to me that everyone should spot themselves regularly,
> like maybe every 10 minutes or so.  Maybe rare DX stations would not
> want to spot themselves and get inundated with callers, but almost
> anybody else should welcome the increased rate.
>
> It would also be great if everyone spotted every S&P QSO they made.  SSB
> could then approach equality with CW and RTTY, where automatic Skimmers
> generate tons of spots all weekend long. Some logging programs already
> have the capability to automatically generate self spots and Search &
> Pounce spots.
>
> Assisted ops will have to focus on filtering which spots they want to
> see, but the good ops know how to do this already.  For example, US/VE
> ops will not want to see US/VE spots, and DX ops will not want to see
> non-US/VE spots.
>
> The more spots, the better.  It should be a lot of fun!
>
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
>
>
>
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