and then add in:
all the
"That's NOT DX, stop spotting states!"
or "Your not obeying the band plan"
or...
"Your splattering
You have klix
your out of the band"
I think my monitor might melt down.
PM
>> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Outgoing Spots Only?
>>
>> That's what NCCC did. And it worked for them.
>
> Let's just do a little math.
>
> In my circle of contesting friends, about 50% are using WriteLog. Now that
> seems a little bit high percentage for a "national average", so let's
> assume a percentage of half that, or 25%. And let's further assume that
> only half those users are connected to a cluster, or 12.5%. .
>
> So how many spam-spots would 12.5% of this weekends contesters have
> generated?
>
> Looking at the 3830 scores so far, the highest number of QSO's worked was
> 1454 by W6YI. Presuming he worked every station available all weekend,
> multiplying 1454 by .125 comes out to 182 stations as the potential
> universe of spam-spotters.
>
> If these stations worked an average of 300 Q's they'd spam-spot 54,600
> spots over the 30-hour contest, or about one every 2 seconds on average.
> This in addition to all the spots generated by the remaining 75% of us who
> wouldn't be equipped to spam-spot.
>
> Bad idea!
>
> YMMV.
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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