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Re: [CQ-Contest] Self-spotting in-debth

To: Roberto Rey <cwdude@gmail.com>, CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Self-spotting in-debth
From: brian coyne <g4odv@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-to: brian coyne <g4odv@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 06:34:06 +0000 (UTC)
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> Now. When the topic started, I thought, it cou> statement, but there is quite 
> a discussion ongoing...ld be a tongue-in-chick> Gents, are you serious?
>
> 73,
> Vlad VE3IAE

Hear -hear.
73  Brian 5B4AIZ / C4Z.

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 Sent: Thursd From: Roberto Rey <cwdude@gmail.com>
 To: V. Sidarau ay, 29 Octobetr 2015, 23:20
 Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Self-spotting in-debth
   
So those little round thingys on radios really turn around? Nooo.. the 
horror!

73 de Rob HK3CW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "V. Sidarau" <vs.lists@gmail.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 1:55 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Self-spotting in-debth


>I like the self-spot idea for 2 reasons, but I am not sure which of them is
> more attractive.
>
> 1. No need to learn code to take part in a CW contest. As everybody spots
> himself, every spot is error-free. Click on the spot, call the spotter by
> pushing an F-key with your call-sign and if a reply follows, there is a 
> QSO.
> A history file will pre-fill an exchange. Isn't it great?
>
> 2. 8000 participants is a normal number of participants in a major contest
> nowadays. 8000 self-spots a time is already nice, but 8000 self-spots 
> every
> 10 minutes along with 30 minutes spot life will clog bandmaps and make 
> them
> totally unusable within a few minutes. Let alone cluster nods fed-up to a
> limit right at the start of the contest.
> The useless dead-fed bandmap may force people to forget watching spots and
> learn how to rotate a tuning dial... That's also not bad.
>
> Now. When the topic started, I thought, it cou> statement, but there is quite 
> a discussion ongoing...ld be a tongue-in-chick

>
> Gents, are you serious?
>
> 73,
> Vlad VE3IAE
>
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