Pretty easy - not all people who are on the cluster like to see skimmer spots.
73 Rich NN3W
On Sun, Mar 10, 2024 at 1:13 PM Mike Fatchett W0MU <w0mu@w0mu.com> wrote:
>
> What would be the reason to self spot on CW? I see the advantages on SSB.
>
> W0MU
>
>
>
> On 3/9/2024 9:36 AM, Sandy N7RQ via CQ-Contest wrote:
> > Interesting. I tried self-spotting for the first time. Although it
> > appeared to work in tests prior to the contest, I couldn't get it to work
> > during it. Clearly, something I didn't do in the set-up prevented it. Bob
> > K8IA was in the other room watching a mirror of my screen and he would spot
> > me now and then at his leisure while he was watching tv, along with other
> > folks in the contest who also spotted me. I'm still never going to beat
> > KU2M with his east coast killer station, but I enjoyed a more steady run of
> > stations for a good part of the contest. We won't talk about most of
> > Sunday - bleah. Thank you for this, Tim. It's very interesting.
> > 73/88 Sandy N7RQ
> > On Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 07:14:13 AM MST, Tim Shoppa
> > <tshoppa@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 342 stations self-spotted during ARRL DX SSB 2024 more than 10 times, a
> > clear step up over self-spotting usage in the CW leg two weeks earlier.
> >
> > Self-spotting has been allowed by ARRL for all entrants in ARRL contests
> > for 15 months now. Note that most all other contest sponsors - especially
> > CQ/WWROF contests - still explicitly ban self-spotting.
> >
> > Several prominent US/VE stations used DX callsigns as the originator when
> > sending some or all of their self spots to the cluster, and visa-versa. For
> > example, 9A7P self-spotted using W3WM, and AA3B self spotted using DL/AA3B.
> > This is above and beyond several US hams in the Caribbean that logged into
> > the cluster using their home callsigns. This is important to work around
> > geographically restrictive filters many hams have set for the origin of the
> > cluster spots they see.
> >
> > The top ten self-spotters in ARRL DX SSB 2024 by my analysis are:
> >
> > #self-
> > spots call spotted using calls
> > ----- ----- -------------------
> > 589 9A1A 9A1A 9A5W
> > 542 CR6K CR6K CT1ILT
> > 529 ZF1A ZF1A ZF1BB
> > 483 W3LPL W3LPL
> > 394 K1TTT K1TTT KA1R
> > 386 PJ2T K8ND PJ2T W0CG
> > 384 N5DX N5DX
> > 379 9A7P 9A7P W3WM
> > 360 EI7M G4PCS
> > 358 ED7W EB7A ED7W
> >
> > You can find my full self-spotting analysis for ARRL DX SSB 2024 and the
> > raw Telnet data at https://radiosport.world/2024arrlssb.html
> >
> > Tim N3QE
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