All:

It's an f'ing hobby!  The Kilocycle Kops who brought this up should send their licenses to Laura Smith and  engage in some pastime more fitting to their nature, like making Bonsai trees or double cross stitch. NQ4I  has more hardware than any 5 or 6  other stations in SECC put together so he has an inherent advantage anyway.

We are trying to put GA on the air.  I don't think this would DQ  the effort.

Tom  NN4RR

From: secc-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:secc-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rick Dougherty NQ4I
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 10:40 AM
To: SECC
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.

Rick