FWIW, The YSA manual (YCCC Sysops Association) says that filters are disabled in "contest mode". Don't know if this is true in other areas. 73 Bruce W1CSM >There is one big advantage to sending filtering commands to your vhf >cluster. > >It eliminates cluster traffic. > > >Bill > >come and visit >http://www.dataflo.net/~w9ol >or >http://www.dataflo.net/~judyh > >