[CQ-Contest] Zero Beat ? Not everybody does !,

[Joe]

I wonder if some of these spots that are way off are from people that 
have their loggers set up to spot all S&P contacts, and they when they 
make a contact are way off the station being worked frequency, so the 
resulting spot is also way off?

Joe WB9SBD

On 12/9/2025 3:29 PM, Jim McCook wrote:
> My belief is that the worst thing a caller can do in a contest is call 
> the other station zero beat with him.  Not far away, but a reasonable 
> distance either side of zero beat within a normal passband, depending 
> on the contest participation. The exception, of course, would be if 
> there were only one caller. Too often a spot is the zero beat 
> frequency, so the caller clicks on that frequency and calls the DX, 
> which creates chaos in a contest.  The best way to make the contact in 
> a contest is to call _off_ zero beat, which helps other callers hear 
> the DX.  It's hard for the DX when he can tell the callers are QRMing 
> each other and can't hear him.  Jim
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