[CQ-Contest] Fewer than 3% of contesters self-spotted in ARRL DX CW 2024

[Saulius Zalnerauskas]

Joe (WB9SBD) I thought same as you, but I tried to do selfspot and found
how much it helps.
Not very much old fashioned dudies using RBN telnet spots. They just
looking to DX summit  :)
Really!
Sam LY5W

2024-02-19, pr 22:38, Joe <nss at mwt.net> rašė:

> You should do this test in a Phone contest. I bet the results would be
> very different.
>
> In a CW test I do not see any need to self spot at all.
>
> I mean each CQ most likely will be caught by the RBN, and spot you.
> And your self spots will be blocked, ignored, whatever ya call it.
>
> Only if you stop CQing and time it just right should a self spot make it
> through.
>
> Joe WB9SBD
>
> On 2/19/2024 10:02 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> > I gathered manual (non-reversebeacon) spots from 9 Telnet cluster nodes
> > around the world over the 48-hour ARRL DX CW 2024 contest, deduped them,
> > and counted self-spots to see how widely self-spotting has been adopted,
> 14
> > months after the ARRL began allowing self-spotting by all entrants in
> ARRL
> > contests.
> >
> > (Note that almost all other major HF contest sponsors do not allow
> > self-spotting and strictly forbid it!)
> >
> > I also included as self-spots, the case where the spotting station(s)
> used
> > a different call than the spotted call. This was not at all rare; many
> > contesters used a special call for the contest but were, for example,
> > logged into the cluster with their regular call. Other DXpedition teams
> > seem to have specifically logged in to clusters and spotted using
> multiple
> > members home calls - a wise choice for when the target audience may have
> > excessively strict geographic filters on what spots they receive.
> >
> > Only 134 stations self-spotted in this contest, if I ignore stations that
> > self-spotted themselves less than 10 times. There will be more than 5000
> > logs submitted for ARRL DX CW this year, so this is fewer than 3% of all
> > entrants who have adopted self-spotting. I'm honestly surprised the
> uptake
> > has been so low. In fact, the number of posts to cq-contest on the
> subject
> > of self-spotting in the past 14 months far exceeds the number of
> > self-spotters.
> >
> > Top 10 self-spotters, and the calls they self-spotted under, are listed
> > below. The self-spot counts below are after some aggressive deduping -
> for
> > example if a station posted themselves on multiple frequencies in the
> same
> > minute I only counted it as a single self-spot. You can find a complete
> > list of all 134 stations, and the raw telnet cluster data, at
> > https://radiosport.world/2024arrlcw.html
> >
> > The Top 10:
> >
> > #self-
> > spots   call    spotted using calls
> > -----   ------  -------------------
> > 632     CR6K    CR6K CT1ILT
> > 449     V3T     V31TP
> > 427     S53M    S53M
> > 341     W4NF    W4NF
> > 340     AA3B    AA3B
> > 306     W3LPL   W3LPL
> > 267     MW4R    MW4R
> > 261     K3LR    K3LR
> > 244     PJ2T    K8ND PJ2T W0CG W4EE
> > 238     OM2VL   OM2VL
> >
> > Tim N3QE
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