Another reason to get spots from farther away is to see spots of stations in
your skip zone, so you don't QRM them by picking a run frequency close to them.
Jim N7US
-----Original Message-----
I think it’s a BIG mistake to filter spots to only allow spots from close by
stations. I would not trust the “neighbors’ (or for that matter one only a
thousand miles away) crappy antenna on his skimmer RX to hear what I hear.
Perhaps with a bigger antenna but there are lots of times I have worked
stations that are not even spotted on this continent.
73…Stan, K5GO
Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 3, 2022, at 11:12 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I suspect that many of us filter incoming spots so we will only see those
> originating where we can also reasonably expect to hear the spotted station.
> For example, I only see spots from states surrounding mine. Presumably, a
> self-spot coming from station X will appear on the cluster network as
> originating at Station X's location, rather than at a distant location where
> Station X might logically be heard.
>
> In a way, this goes right to the principle that self-spotting violates , by
> making the self-spotted station be the spotter, rather than someone actually
> receiving its signal.
>
> --
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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