While everyone is entitled to their opinion, I personally think it is a stretch to consider that as self spotting. You simply gave a range of frequencies suggested by GQP organizers and promoted the contest. I find it aggravating that there are those in our fraternity spending more time focused on negativity and resentment, more so than promoting the hobby. They are a distraction to the good eminating from our hobby and I highly recommend that you ignore the claim of self spotting and submit the log.

From: Rick NQ4I <nq4i@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:39:49 -0400
To: SECC <secc@contesting.com>
Subject: [SECC] Self Spotting

It has been brought to my attention that I posted a facebook posting stating that the GQP was on the air and I listed the suggested GQP frequencies, and I mentioned that the NQ4I station would be on using the K4HYB call sign all done 30 minutes into the contest. So I am strongly considering taking the K4HYB log and not submitting it for the GQP competition. I did what I did to publicise the GQP and hopefully get some more participation. It obviously has offended one member of SECC and not taken in the context it was meant. I apologize to all the hard working members of the K4HYB team. I read the posting from Norm WA4ZXV and it said that use of spotting networks was encouraged...I took that to include spotting ones station. No where in my facebook posting did I specifically state any frequency that K4HYB was using at the time. Only the suggested GQP spots to look for Ga stations.