Fully agree Bill.
Narrow minded people should be ingnored ...sometimes.
73,
Fabi va2up
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> From: dezrat1242@yahoo.com
> To: rtty@contesting.com
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:48:20 -0700
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Self spotting outside of a contest?
>
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:59:04 -0500, "jim" <wb5aaa@windstream.net> wrote:
>
> >
> >I have done the same on 10m RTTY which is a lot like 160m RTTY
> >Not very many takers .... call CQ for hour with no Q's then make a post
> >And here comes 2 or 3 .....
> >
> >But every time I do a SELF SPOT I get some e-mail saying it is not
> >right
>
> REPLY:
>
> Same here - many CQs with no answeres, then a self spot and 2 or 3 answers
> immediately. It seems to me like a perfectly valid use of telnet. What
> difference does it make if I self spot or someone else spots me?
>
> I had stopped self spotting for a while, but I'm going to start it up again
> but
> only on 160 or 6 meters and only RTTY. If someone emails me to say it's not
> right, I will politely ask them to explain why. I bet they can't, other than
> it
> annoys them for some vague reason they can't explain.
>
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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