Topband: Is self-spotting ALWAYS wrong?

[Stan Stockton]

Mike,

You did "self spot" just by calling CQ, more than 15 times.  It's automatic.

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73...Stan, K5GO

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> On Feb 7, 2015, at 6:30 AM, Mike Waters <mikewate at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> www.w0btu.com
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