[CQ-Contest] 7% of contesters self spotted in ARRL DX SSB 2024 - twice as many as in CW

[Tom]

State QSO parties are increasingly allowing self spotting.  When they 
request that we specifically allow it in N1MM Logger+, we do. This is 
the current list of those state parties requesting us to allow self 
spotting:

  "AZ", "DE", "GA", "IL", "IN", "KY", "MN", "PA", "SC", "VA", "VT", 
"WA", "WI", "7QP"

I think that the sponsors wish to encourage more QSOs & activity in 
their contests and think this helps.

Tom - N1MM


On 3/9/2024 8:37 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> 342 stations self-spotted during ARRL DX SSB 2024 more than 10 times, a
> clear step up over self-spotting usage in the CW leg two weeks earlier.
>
> Self-spotting has been allowed by ARRL for all entrants in ARRL contests
> for 15 months now. Note that most all other contest sponsors - especially
> CQ/WWROF contests - still explicitly ban self-spotting.
>
> Several prominent US/VE stations used DX callsigns as the originator when
> sending some or all of their self spots to the cluster, and visa-versa. For
> example, 9A7P self-spotted using W3WM, and AA3B self spotted using DL/AA3B.
> This is above and beyond several US hams in the Caribbean that logged into
> the cluster using their home callsigns. This is important to work around
> geographically restrictive filters many hams have set for the origin of the
> cluster spots they see.
>
> The top ten self-spotters in ARRL DX SSB 2024 by my analysis are:
>
> #self-
> spots   call    spotted using calls
> -----   -----   -------------------
> 589     9A1A    9A1A 9A5W
> 542     CR6K    CR6K CT1ILT
> 529     ZF1A    ZF1A ZF1BB
> 483     W3LPL   W3LPL
> 394     K1TTT   K1TTT KA1R
> 386     PJ2T    K8ND PJ2T W0CG
> 384     N5DX    N5DX
> 379     9A7P    9A7P W3WM
> 360     EI7M    G4PCS
> 358     ED7W    EB7A ED7W
>
> You can find my full self-spotting analysis for ARRL DX SSB 2024 and the
> raw Telnet data athttps://radiosport.world/2024arrlssb.html
>
> Tim N3QE
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