Author: Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@advanced-conversion.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 21:25:51 +0000
I was thinking this was kicking in for ARRL tests for the Unlimited category. Is that right? Was it done commonly in SS this weekend and how did it work out? Ed N1UR _________________________________
Running N1MM from VE7CC's portal, I got NO SSB spots at all in five hours Saturday night. I saw lots of CW spots in the Telnet window. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ CQ-
I'm not in SS, but I saw about 350/hr SS spots this evening. There have been a few self-spotters among the mix -- W6SR and W0UC are examples. I never op assisted/unlimited, so I don't know much about
A few people self spotted in Sweepstakes but it was extremely rare. The ARRL Sweepstakes rules state the following: Single Operator Unlimited (SOU) HCAT.2.1. Use of spotting assistance is permitted.
First, make sure you have the latest rules. ARRL didn't update the November SS rules (to the latest, version 1.06) on their website until late August. Prior to that we just had a confusing tease abou
Bob W5OV of the ARRL has corrected me. He writes "Your reading of PROH.3 is not correct. That exclusion is specifically about making schedules, soliciting contacts (i.e.; CQing), and sending or recei
Author: Jack Brindle via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:46:40 -0600
Pros 3. Would indicate that self-spotting is perfectly OK if your self-spot is submitted into the ham packet radio network. But then we get into a grey area. If that network then submits the spot int
It makes no sense to encourage stations to clog the clusters with spots of themselves, just because they can. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network web server at<https://reversebeaco
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:22:07 -0500
This seems pretty definitive to me: *From the ARRL Contest Update today:* _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com
Self-spotting is merely the equivalent of calling CQ by non-ham means. To me, it never made sense to permit the use of non-ham communications networks for the purpose of improving your score while c
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 20:17:29 -0500
Why doesn't it? There is no prohibition against it. ARRL has started that you can spot yourself, have friends spot you, put out posts on Facebook and Twitter, and have a banner tower aircraft or the
The difference is that if highly competitive single ops can self-spot, they will do so after every QSO, not every 10 minutes. They are motivating those people to clog up the packet cluster network i
How is that materially different from having a program that automatically spots every S&P contact, clogging the cluster with spots of CQing stations? 73 de Lee, AA4GA ________________________________
Pete, it wasn't until Sunday morning in SS that I began keeping a log of the cluster traffic to look just for self spots. I see 95 self-spots by 22 SS participants in the last 11.5 hours of SS SSB, w
Given the confusion about self-spotting before the contest, it doesn't surprise me that relatively few people took advantage of the rule change. Just wait.... 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the new Reverse
No, they won't. Highly competive OPs do not want to make a fool of themselves. And even if some do spot themselves every few minutes, it's still going to be little traffic in comparison to RBN which
I can only speak for N1MM+, which only spots S&P contacts if they have not been recently spotted. 73, Steve, N2IC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@co
But the RBN (or rather CW Skimmer) will only let the same station spot the same station once every 10 minutes. For a station running 100 Qs per hour and spotting itself with every one of them, that'
Author: Steve Dyer W1SRD via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 14:53:22 -0600
It's not any different. This whole issue is a nothing burger. The tech exists for a phone RBN, just no one has (bothered) to do it. No, self spotting won't be the "end of contesting as we know it" (T
Why would you assume that an assisted station would not spot itself? Makes zero sense. Given how packet addicted many hams have become, stations stand to gain significantly from self spotting. 73 Ric