[CQ-Contest] Self-spotting

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Actually, the impact is even less than John suggests - the article on 
the RBN web site is badly outdated - last year in CQWWCW the RBN posted 
well over 10  million spots in the 48 hours.  From the self-spotting 
station's standpoint, doing so would be much more impactful during SSB 
contests.

73, Pete N4ZR

On 3/1/2023 6:59 AM, K3TN via CQ-Contest wrote:
> I'm not a fan of the self spotting decision for HF contests, but I don't think it approaches mayhem - more just another level of erosion of old norms.
> The Reverse Beacon Network (https://www.reversebeacon.net/pages/Using+the+RBN+33) quotes an average rate of about 20 spots per second during a major CW contest, which works out to roughly 3.5M spots over a 48 hour contest.
> There are 288 10 minute segments in a 48 hour contest. If 5,000 ops were self-spotting every 10 minutes for the entire 48 hours, it would only be about 1M spots over the contest duration - and that is a very high estimate.
> So, roughly a 30% increase in spotting volume is not going to be a big deal in a CW contest. In a phone contest, the spot volume is so low and the volume won't approach that of a CW contest.
> 73 John K3TN
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