On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 12:57:18PM -0000, Barry wrote:
> During the contest, I noted a W1 station doing a lot of spotting of
> stateside stations, many of whom were his fellow YCCC members. As a
> result of this, one of my fellow FRCers started spotting some of us
> (myself included).
> Is this an accepted practice?
I think it is cheating. The only way this is any different than self-spotting
is that the beneficiary of the contacts generated by this solicitation on
the network is a club score and not specifically the station that generated
the spot. It is still a form of self-spotting in the context of the contest,
and I think it is disreputable behavior.
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Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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