Every contester should read the contest rules _before_ entering the contest.
From this year’s ARRL Sweepstakes rules:
"Generating spotting information for use by other stations is not considered to
be spotting assistance."
Also, the old prohibition of self-spotting is no longer in the rules.
You might want to check out the rules before 2100Z…
73,
Jack, W6FB
> On Nov 19, 2022, at 9:44 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been appalled by how few stations spot in phone contests, even though
> N1MM+ (and perhaps other contest logging programs) offer the option of
> spotting all S&P QSOs, regardless of mode.
>
> It's been suggested to me that some non-assisted contest entrants may be
> deterred because of concern that they might risk disqualification if frequent
> spots attributed to them are seen on the cluster network. If that's a
> significant deterrent, which seems somewhat credible, then perhaps the
> sponsors of the major contests should singly or collectively announce that
> the appearance of spots attributed to non-assisted competitors will not, by
> themselves, be considered evidence of assisted status.
>
> Then how would illicit assisted operation be detected? 15 years ago, CT1BOH
> and VE5ZX authored a paper on how to identify undisclosed two-radio or
> assisted operation through log analysis. With the capabilities now available
> to us, and the near-universal acceptance of open logs, it seems to me that
> the means exist for detecting undisclosed assistance without making
> assumptions based on spotting.
>
> So what say, contest organizers?
>
> --
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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