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Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Spotting

To: K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Spotting
From: Richard DiDonna <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2023 17:20:37 +0200
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I think you’re underestimating the ability of people to multitask.  Contesting 
activities are not binary.  You can call CQ and look at a monitor at the same 
time…..

73 Rich NN3W

> On Jul 3, 2023, at 3:57 PM, K9MA <k9ma@sdellington.us> wrote:
> 
> On 7/2/2023 8:42 AM, kq2m@kq2m.com wrote:
>> Scoreboards provide a multitude of information and different ops use that 
>> info in different ways to different effects.  The score at any given point 
>> basically tells you who is ahead or behind in aggregate; it is a snapshot of 
>> what has already happened and on what bands the op made it happen; however, 
>> watching for CHANGES in the band by band breakdown tells you where those 
>> changes in score are happening NOW which is very valuable info if the op 
>> knows how to use that effectively, and clearly not the same thing as DX 
>> Cluster spots which give away the freq and time of the spotted stations. 
> 
> I have to wonder how productive watching scoreboards for such changes really 
> would be. Perhaps that time would be better spent calling CQ or searching.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Scott K9MA
> 
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