[RTTY] Cluster abuse!

[Jerry Flanders]

Just a thought - is there any way to have it beep when a certain call 
is spotted? Would be nice to hear about it when my call is posted.

Jerry W4UK

At 02:32 PM 2/12/2007, you wrote:
>I noticed something similar.  I saw a few times that I was spotted by
>watching my bandmap.  Then I saw a spot for me come out 5 or so KHz away
>from where I was operating.  I never checked to see who was on that freq
>after that happened.  But that occurred at least 2 times as I recall.
>
>73, John  K0TG
>
>
>FireBrick wrote:
> > Phil, it wasn't me as I didn't spot anyone.
> > but
> > Could this have happened?
> >
> > Say w9ol is cqing on 7060
> > and I see a spot for yw0dx on 7040
> > I jump to that spot, work him, and then using the F12 key, jump back to my
> > cqing freqency and send a cq
> > and THEN I forget and send a cluster spot for the yw0dx....which 
> would have
> > my frequency and not the correct one.
> >
> > just a possibility...I didn't experiment to see if the software would work
> > this way.
> >
> >
> >
> > a
> > On 2/12/2007 7:37:39 AM, pcooper (pcooper at guernsey.net) wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Just a quick one before I post my thoughts on WPX.
> >>
> >> We had a previous thread going relating to self-spotting, but this
> >> weekend,
> >> I saw a different variation on this theme!
> >>
> >> I was monitoring the cluster, and kept seeing my own call being spotted on
> >> a different band to where I was operating.
> >>
> >> I checked a couple of these dubious spots, and saw the "spotter" calling
> >> CQ on that frequency!
> >>
> >> OK, this in itself is not necessarily a problem in itself, but it caused
> >> me a great deal of confusion on 40m yesterday afternoon, when I was
> >> running
> >> a goodly pile, and then noticed a spot for my call way down the band.
> >> I then had lots of folk querying my call, and generally giving me grief!
> >>
> >> My rate went down from around 90+ right down to 35, which annoyed me
> >> immensely.
> >>
> >> 73 all
> >>
> >> Phil GU0SUP
> >>
> >>