Hello all....Russ, K2TXB, made the following post a few weeks ago. I
think that it is a wonderful idea. If everyone would get behind this
proposal, it would go a long ways to straightening out the VHF contest
rules. Are you listening VUAC????
*****Russ' Post******
We allow a web page where anyone can spot themselves or anyone else.
They can only post callsign and frequency (and maybe sequence).
We allow everyone to do this - no restrictions. We make no special class
called assisted - everyone can do it.
I don't see this as much more helpful than what a lot of us have already
been doing - posting a schedule here on moon-net so everyone knows where
and when to look.
So let's all do it - if we want; the big guns don't need to because
everyone can hear them anyway. And some of us will prefer to prove that
we can get just as large a score as the person who spots.
But that would eliminate the whole controversy. No assisted class and no
real time scheduling.
********END RUSS*********
His post was to the EME reflector, but the idea is a great one if
implemented for all VHF contests and all operator classes. It would
eliminate the discrimination that now exists where Multi-Multi stations
can look at the spots, but the single ops cannot. Spotting does not
give you a contact....it just gives you a chance to make a contact.
73 Marshall K5QE
Dan Evans wrote:
> n 3/5/2010 4:58 PM, John D'Ausilio wrote:
>
>> Personally, I think self-spotting should be allowed for rovers ..
>> everyone knows where all the fixed stations are, but for the rovers
>> it's like playing hide and seek. You can assume that a rover is*not*
>> going to be on-schedule past the start time (and maybe not even then),
>> so schedules are only guidance. Propagation, equipment, and operating
>> skill will determine whether a contact is completed, whether there's
>> traffic on I-95 will be less of an issue:) and roving would be a lot
>> less frustrating (especially given the time/$$$/energy invested). Plus
>> it would make roving attractive to new guys .. nothing motivates a
>> newbie like a steady stream of QSOs ..
>>
>> de w1rt/john
>>
>
>
> Absolutely!
> Keeping a Rover on schedule is nearly impossible. Either you make your
> schedule so vague as to be not very useful, or you can't stay on schedule.
>
> 73
> Dan
>
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