Hi there !!
No self-spots here, no DX-Summit, no cluster, no-assisted.
And was fine to me.
Ok, now we have the SSB portion, and will be different. I
don't know if I will keep myself out of the world, really.
I don't have any plans but beat my personal records, from
the times when we had no help.
Well, let's think about that.
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Em seg., 19 de fev. de 2024 às 23:03, Jamie WW3S <ww3s@zoominternet.net>
escreveu:
> I will echo that, as soon as I started running, I could see I was
> spotted by RBN in the INFO window of N1MM......and got some
> callers....BUT.....when I got a manual spot on the old school network,
> it was almost instant pileup....
>
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From "Saulius Zalnerauskas" <ly5w.sam@gmail.com>
> To "Joe" <nss@mwt.net>
> Cc "Tim Shoppa" <tshoppa@gmail.com>; "CQ-Contest Reflector"
> <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Date 2/19/2024 3:45:47 PM
> Subject Re: [CQ-Contest] Fewer than 3% of contesters self-spotted in
> ARRL DX CW 2024
>
> >Joe (WB9SBD) I thought same as you, but I tried to do selfspot and found
> >how much it helps.
> >Not very much old fashioned dudies using RBN telnet spots. They just
> >looking to DX summit :)
> >Really!
> >Sam LY5W
> >
> >2024-02-19, pr 22:38, Joe <nss@mwt.net> rašė:
> >
> >> You should do this test in a Phone contest. I bet the results would be
> >> very different.
> >>
> >> In a CW test I do not see any need to self spot at all.
> >>
> >> I mean each CQ most likely will be caught by the RBN, and spot you.
> >> And your self spots will be blocked, ignored, whatever ya call it.
> >>
> >> Only if you stop CQing and time it just right should a self spot make
> it
> >> through.
> >>
> >> Joe WB9SBD
> >>
> >> On 2/19/2024 10:02 AM, Tim Shoppa wrote:
> >> > I gathered manual (non-reversebeacon) spots from 9 Telnet cluster
> nodes
> >> > around the world over the 48-hour ARRL DX CW 2024 contest, deduped
> them,
> >> > and counted self-spots to see how widely self-spotting has been
> adopted,
> >> 14
> >> > months after the ARRL began allowing self-spotting by all entrants in
> >> ARRL
> >> > contests.
> >> >
> >> > (Note that almost all other major HF contest sponsors do not allow
> >> > self-spotting and strictly forbid it!)
> >> >
> >> > I also included as self-spots, the case where the spotting station(s)
> >> used
> >> > a different call than the spotted call. This was not at all rare;
> many
> >> > contesters used a special call for the contest but were, for example,
> >> > logged into the cluster with their regular call. Other DXpedition
> teams
> >> > seem to have specifically logged in to clusters and spotted using
> >> multiple
> >> > members home calls - a wise choice for when the target audience may
> have
> >> > excessively strict geographic filters on what spots they receive.
> >> >
> >> > Only 134 stations self-spotted in this contest, if I ignore stations
> that
> >> > self-spotted themselves less than 10 times. There will be more than
> 5000
> >> > logs submitted for ARRL DX CW this year, so this is fewer than 3% of
> all
> >> > entrants who have adopted self-spotting. I'm honestly surprised the
> >> uptake
> >> > has been so low. In fact, the number of posts to cq-contest on the
> >> subject
> >> > of self-spotting in the past 14 months far exceeds the number of
> >> > self-spotters.
> >> >
> >> > Top 10 self-spotters, and the calls they self-spotted under, are
> listed
> >> > below. The self-spot counts below are after some aggressive deduping
> -
> >> for
> >> > example if a station posted themselves on multiple frequencies in the
> >> same
> >> > minute I only counted it as a single self-spot. You can find a
> complete
> >> > list of all 134 stations, and the raw telnet cluster data, at
> >> > https://radiosport.world/2024arrlcw.html
> >> >
> >> > The Top 10:
> >> >
> >> > #self-
> >> > spots call spotted using calls
> >> > ----- ------ -------------------
> >> > 632 CR6K CR6K CT1ILT
> >> > 449 V3T V31TP
> >> > 427 S53M S53M
> >> > 341 W4NF W4NF
> >> > 340 AA3B AA3B
> >> > 306 W3LPL W3LPL
> >> > 267 MW4R MW4R
> >> > 261 K3LR K3LR
> >> > 244 PJ2T K8ND PJ2T W0CG W4EE
> >> > 238 OM2VL OM2VL
> >> >
> >> > Tim N3QE
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