[RTTY] Gripe of the Day

[Graham Ridgeway]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:37:38 -0800, "Fred Dennin" <fdennin at numail.org>
wrote:

>No "self spotting" is one central premise in virtually every major contest 
>and should be understood that it is unacceptable.  However, it seems that 
>lack of specificity in the rules is sometimes interpreted to mean that if 
>it's not spelled out in the rule, then it's fair game.  Based on my quick 
>review of the BARTG rules for this year, it does not expressly prohibit self 
>spotting.
>
>Other committments kept me from playing in this one but for what it's worth, 
>he/she should just submit a check log.
>
>73'......Fred WW4LL
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Rick Mintz" <Rmintz at Rochester.rr.com>
>To: "RTTY Mailing List" <RTTY at contesting.com>
>Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:14 AM
>Subject: [RTTY] Gripe of the Day
>
>
>> Hi Gang,
>>
>> I noticed a station in BARTG RTTY Sprint asking other stations to spot 
>> him/her on the PacketCluster.
>>
>> I think that this is outside the bounds of "proper" operating. Am I off 
>> base here? Should we really be doing this?
>>
>> The station in question will remain forever nameless. At least he/she is a 
>> good operator otherwise.
>>
>> Rick W1TY/W2RTY
>>

Very debateable - by not spotting himself, by definition he was not
'self spotting' - however it could be construed as 'advertising for
qso's'

I think worse were the East EU stations taking up 500khz with hideous
signals - not counting the poor guy who at the outset was
chirping/drifitng some 300khz on each transmission.......somehow, when
I worked him [and tried to tell him] he was well over 150 Q's !

And I won't mention the Alligators <smile> Clean signals but deaf as
posts.


73 Graham M5AAV