What I found out last year is that while the ARRL decided it was okay to self
spot, they never coordinated with the telnet clusters that this would be okay.
So while it may be in the rules to self spot, depending on what you do and how
you do it, the world may not see that you are doing so. What I found was:
* If you spot with DX Summit using the web form, almost none of the
clusters forward the spot. So only DX Summit users see it. Which is a small
percentage of active contesters.
* If you sign on to some clusters, they don't allow self spotting. So it
will accept the spot but not publicize it. Apparently they "never got the
memo" from ARRL.
* If you spot either yourself or another person, within some varying amount
of time on the same frequency, the additional spots are ignored. You have to
change frequency by about 1khz for it to go around that rule.
The cluster community should really state what is published spots rules are so
there isn't so much confusion.
Ed N1UR
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