Topband: Is self-spotting ALWAYS wrong?

[Mike Waters]

Pardon my ignorance, but if there is little or no activity on 160, what
harm does spotting one's own "CQ DX" do? I know it's frowned upon, but I
have never understood why.

I called CQ DX for awhile this morning before dawn, and no one answered. I
know that propagation was decent, because I worked a VK2, K1N, and heard
other DX. Perhaps if I would have spotted myself on the DX cluster, then
some DX station would have taken notice and answered me.

Not everyone tunes the bands looking for CQs all the time (like I did this
AM after K1N's sunrise). But lots of people monitor the cluster.

Just who would I have harmed (any why) if I would have self-spotted myself?

73, Mike
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