Depends on how your antennas compare to your neighbors!
I've limited my spots for years to MD/PA/VA/DE/WV since I'm in MD. Just in 3
land my spotting neighbors include W3LPL and K3LR! In comparison, most of us
in 3 land have crappier antennas than our neighboring RBN nodes!
I started filtering years ago when I realized my time wasted on calling
marginal spots seemed higher than any gain in rate. Seeing spots from skimmers
in Maine before 20M is open to 3 land doesn't help me. Similarly, on 10m and
160m spots west of the Mississippi are rarely useful.
73 John K3TN
> K5GO says: "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."
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