I like the spotting advantage that RBN gives the little pistol on CW.
Self spotting is perfectly OK in my book.
About 10 years ago, I had an internet app called WhereRU. It used the
N1MM broadcasts of rig frequency and put them up on a shared server. This
is now coming full circle ... I see no reason why we should not let
everyone spot.
Of course ... there is a huge advantage to RBN: A spot is useless if you
cannot hear the station. I kind of like the idea of a swawk (of 70 WPM or
so CW) (< 2 seconds) every once in a while during an SSB CQ, so that RBN
could identify a station, and provide propagation information. It would be
neat to test that.
73, Gerry W1VE
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Ed Sawyer <sawyered@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments to my post.
>
>
>
> In reading the many views, I think the easiest solution that doesn't change
> the spirit of contesting is to instill processes of spotting more
> consistently. The encouragement of setting the software to automatically
> spot when logging Qs for those running assisted. That simple thing would
> greatly even the playing field of spotting in SSB contests.
>
>
>
> Opinions?
>
>
>
> Ed N1UR
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