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Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW

To: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Whither CQ WW
From: Lee Hiers <lee.hiers@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 00:43:37 -0400
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That's how I spot - I log the contact and hit the key combo to send the
spot.  I suspect the typos and miscopies are in the logs.

Lee, AA4GA

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 8:15 PM Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just one comment -  I suspect that a lot of those typos and mis-copies
> would be avoided if spots were being generated based on what people
> actually entered in their logs - on the theory that people are less
> careful if they are spotting manually after a QSO, and believe that a
> typo in a spot "does no harm."
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
> web server at<https://reversebeacon.net>.
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 10/31/2022 10:35 AM, Lee Hiers wrote:
> > The same here...I ended up with about 400 Qs playing around.  First SSB
> > I've done in forever.  100' doublet at 45' and 500 watts.
> >
> > I ran assisted, and basically just went from spot to spot with the arrow
> > keys in N1MM.  I rarely touched the big knob.
> >
> > Occasionally I did tune by a good station that had not been spotted, so I
> > spotted those.  I really would prefer people *don't* automatically spot
> > everything.  It adds to the traffic, and displays a *lot* of busted
> spots -
> > typos or mis-copies, I don't know which...but there were a lot of them.
> >
> > Anyway, it looks like my tower and antennas won't be up before ARRL-DX,
> > so...dang.
> >
> > 73 de Lee, AA4GA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 9:22 AM K3TN via CQ-Contest <
> > cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I made 375 Qs, more than I've made in the SSB test in  many years.
> >> Activity was very high - you can see it in the scores reported in the
> first
> >> hour after the contest ended.
> >> There was plenty of spotting compared to every other phone contests. I
> >> don't think anyone has any obligation to turn spotting on.
> >> I'd answer Whither CQ WW with "up up and away" by all signs.
> >> 73 John K3TN
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