A thought:
What if the worldwide cluster system allowed X number of spots per hour
for any one station, or a minimum time between spots, for any station,
whether spotted by others or self spotted?
What if spotting became something controlled by the spottee, rather than
left to altruistic whims of those who feel like it? What if guys doing SS
in Ohio got spotted as often as guys in Puerto Rico or Wyoming?
What if PJ2T could not take advantage of its many alumni around the world,
eager to put in a good word (or a good spot) for their friends back there?
As Tree wondered, would it be bad if VE8EV could get spotted without
having to wait for a kind soul to post the spot?
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Even in CW SS, in the course of my four station tour and consequent "fresh
meat" time, I can tell when I've been spotted, as the reasonable pileup
becomes a madhouse with usual suspect calls of big time multis and U-class
guys.
73 - Jim K8MR
In a message dated 10/26/2009 11:32:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
hank.k8dd@gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Tree <tree@kkn.net> wrote:
>
> However, I can think of a situation where self spotting might be a good
> thing. I was reading VE8EV's 3830 post after the SSB Sweepstakes last
> year and caught this comment:
>
> "Finally we got spotted and then the rate jumped from 0 to 100 in the
> blink of an eye."
>
> Wow. That's a big change. Probably when the pileup started - it
> attracted enough attention that even those not on packet knew something
> was up. If someone is off in a weird direction and isn't able to attract
> attention with their small signal - having a spot certainly enables them
> to start making QSOs.
>
> I wouldn't think someone from VE8 is likely to be a top ten score and
> the reason they are on the air is to give people a clean sweep. Is this
> a case where a self spot or two wouldn't be bad thing?
>
> 73 Tree N6TR
I've experienced that several times from Central & South America where
the rate meter jumped from 0 to 100 .... more realistically from maybe 20
to
150 or so in 30 seconds due to "hitting the cluster". But I really
don't think that
justifies self spotting.
But then we were well up in the top 10 in our class.
73 Hank K8DD
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