My 2 cents
This is a contest. I’m in a contest.
Why would I spot other stations that I used to make points from?
Especially when I actually used the VFO knob to find the station I just worked.
Spin the dial and find your own points. Last time I checked most HF radios
come with a knob or a mouse that works like a knob.
Now, if this was just DXing, that is a different matter. That isn’t a contest.
<rant over> :)
Mike va3mw
> On Nov 19, 2022, at 4:48 PM, K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us> wrote:
>
> It would seem that spotting S&P contacts would be beneficial to the
> unassisted operator. Let them all fight over the station you just worked. The
> downside, I suppose, is that if everyone does that, the unassisted operator
> is less likely to find a new station before it's spotted. That's a moot point
> in CW contests, as the RBN spots everything almost immediately.
>
> 73,
> Scott K9MA
>
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>
> Scott Ellington
>
> --- via iPad
>
>> On Nov 19, 2022, at 10:54 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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