[UK-CONTEST] Death to the cluster!

[Ray James]

--- On Thu, 10/12/09, Paul_group <paul_group at greenrover.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I watched my bandscope carefully during the contest (2m
> AFS) discussed 
> in the original post and immediately noticed that every
> time I spotted 
> someone - miraculously most of the spikes got bigger. Must
> have been 
> conditions as all those none spotting stations who weren't
> using the 
> cluster wouldn't have known to beam NW would they?

Not just AFS Paul but all VHF and UHF contests since the DXC/KST change and definitely noticed in the monthly UKAC's.
Pre-change there was camaraderie when most helped each other but it's gone dog eat dog selfish with only "point givers" doing any spotting whilst competitors wait for a barer of gifts to show up on DXC/KST.
I used to spot GM activity but have stopped now. If folk want our points and multipliers I'd prefer they either search for us or call this way more often so we can pick 'em up from the white noise. When I was spotting all the GM's active and their frequencies southern beams would shoot around for a minimum time to work 'em and disappear again, and again, and again.
Once burnt, twice shy.

73 Ray GM4CXM  

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