Topband: Stew Perry Spots!!!!

[Pete Smith]

At 02:06 PM 12/29/02 -0600, Iowaguy wrote:
>I was spotted last night.  A ham friend here in town (who was not
>participating in the SP) spotted me, I'm sure thinking he was doing me a
>favor.  Not a big deal...and there is no way of preventing that.  I'm
>guessing the intent of the rules is to prevent contest participants from
>actively using packet to find new stations, etc.


If someone wants to get on casually during the contest and use spots, as 
long as he doesn't submit a log, or submits a check log, should we 
care?  By the same token, if a competitor wants to set up his logging 
software so that he can spot people but not receive spots, does that do any 
harm?  Seems to me that anything we do to attract casual ops to a 
relatively young contest like this is all to the good.

73, Pete N4ZR
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