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

[Albert Crespo]

Because the ARRL the rule fails to state how many self spots can be made in a one hour period, there is at this time no limit.
Perhaps whomever created this self spotting rule could state  the number of self spots per hour. It is then up to the operator(s)  to comply within the rule. End of confusion.





On Saturday, March 9th, 2024 at 4:36 PM, Sandy N7RQ via CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Interesting. I tried self-spotting for the first time. Although it appeared to work in tests prior to the contest, I couldn't get it to work during it. Clearly, something I didn't do in the set-up prevented it. Bob K8IA was in the other room watching a mirror of my screen and he would spot me now and then at his leisure while he was watching tv, along with other folks in the contest who also spotted me. I'm still never going to beat KU2M with his east coast killer station, but I enjoyed a more steady run of stations for a good part of the contest. We won't talk about most of Sunday - bleah. Thank you for this, Tim. It's very interesting.
> 73/88 Sandy N7RQ
> On Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 07:14:13 AM MST, Tim Shoppa tshoppa at gmail.com 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 at https://radiosport.world/2024arrlssb.html
> 
> Tim N3QE
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