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Re: [CQ-Contest] Self-spotting gotcha

To: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Self-spotting gotcha
From: Jim McDonald <jim@n7us.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 19:20:14 +0000
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Another reason to get spots from farther away is to see spots of stations in 
your skip zone, so you don't QRM them by picking a run frequency close to them.

Jim N7US


-----Original Message-----


I think it’s a BIG mistake to filter spots to only allow spots from close by 
stations.  I would not trust the “neighbors’ (or for that matter one only a 
thousand miles away) crappy antenna on his skimmer RX to hear what I hear.  
Perhaps with a bigger antenna but there are lots of times I have worked 
stations that are not even spotted on this continent.

73…Stan, K5GO

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 3, 2022, at 11:12 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I suspect that many of us filter incoming spots so we will only see those 
> originating where we can also reasonably expect to hear the spotted station.  
> For example, I only see spots from states surrounding mine.  Presumably, a 
> self-spot coming from station X will appear on the cluster network as 
> originating at Station X's location, rather than at a distant location where 
> Station X might logically be heard.
> 
> In a way, this goes right to the principle that self-spotting violates , by 
> making the self-spotted station be the spotter, rather than someone actually 
> receiving its signal.
> 
> --
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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