Interesting. I tried self-spotting for the first time. Although it appeared to work in tests prior to the
contest, I couldn't get it to work during it. Clearly, something I didn't do in the set-up prevented it.
Bob K8IA was in the other room watching a mirror of my screen and he would spot me now and then at his leisure while he
was watching tv, along with other folks in the contest who also spotted me. I'm still never going to beat KU2M
with his east coast killer station, but I enjoyed a more steady run of stations for a good part of the contest.
We won't talk about most of Sunday - bleah. Thank you for this, Tim. It's very interesting.
73/88 Sandy N7RQ
On Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 07:14:13 AM MST, Tim Shoppa
<tshoppa@gmail.com> wrote:
342 stations self-spotted during ARRL DX SSB 2024 more than 10 times, a
clear step up over self-spotting usage in the CW leg two weeks earlier.
Self-spotting has been allowed by ARRL for all entrants in ARRL contests
for 15 months now. Note that most all other contest sponsors - especially
CQ/WWROF contests - still explicitly ban self-spotting.
Several prominent US/VE stations used DX callsigns as the originator when
sending some or all of their self spots to the cluster, and visa-versa. For
example, 9A7P self-spotted using W3WM, and AA3B self spotted using DL/AA3B.
This is above and beyond several US hams in the Caribbean that logged into
the cluster using their home callsigns. This is important to work around
geographically restrictive filters many hams have set for the origin of the
cluster spots they see.
The top ten self-spotters in ARRL DX SSB 2024 by my analysis are:
#self-
spots call spotted using calls
----- ----- -------------------
589 9A1A 9A1A 9A5W
542 CR6K CR6K CT1ILT
529 ZF1A ZF1A ZF1BB
483 W3LPL W3LPL
394 K1TTT K1TTT KA1R
386 PJ2T K8ND PJ2T W0CG
384 N5DX N5DX
379 9A7P 9A7P W3WM
360 EI7M G4PCS
358 ED7W EB7A ED7W
You can find my full self-spotting analysis for ARRL DX SSB 2024 and the
raw Telnet data at https://radiosport.world/2024arrlssb.html
Tim N3QE
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