Henry or anyone confused about what self spotting does or is:
Assisted (or Unlimited) has ALWAYS meant "QSO finding assistance"
ie: some person or technology that tells you Romeo, P5RS7 is on 14.020
listening up 5
is Assistance.
Having a person (including yourself) or a technology TELLING OTHERS that
you, yourself, K4TMC is on 14.222.2 is not assistance.
It is virtually identical to what the RBN does on CW and RTTY.
It actually levels the playing field (isn't that the goal?) so everyone who
chooses to use it (when allowed under contest rules)
has the same opportunity to have others find THEM exactly like what take
place on CW now
whether you all realize it takes place or not. If you call CQ on CW, the
RBN will find you. How can any of you be opposed
to the same thing happening on SSB?
Like W0MU I am having a hard time trying to understand why people think this
is "assistance" or
having any opposition to the "self spot" (unless you really just like CQing
endlessly on SSB until someone takes pity on you and spots you?)
-Mike/VE9AA
p.s.- only ARRL and some QSO parties permit self-spotting. The sky didn't
fall and smaller stations are much happier and the playing field is slowly
but surely getting a little more level.
Mike,
Re "I still have not figured out who was damaged by this rule change."
As someone who operates "unassisted" and claims to be "unassisted" in my
submitted logs, I feel disadvantaged against those "unassisted" who self
spot. As someone else posed a short while back, self spotting is like
having a second radio calling CQ for you while operating radio one, thus a
variation on SO2R. It would be nice to know in the published results which
"unassisted" stations posted a single or more self spot. But then there are
those who would use a different call when spotting themselves...Oh my,
Pandora's box has been opened...the key tossed in the ocean...and the lock
mechanism damaged beyond repair...
I know I have been spotted in the past, but I don't know by whom, and I
surely have not asked anyone to spot me.
73,
Henry - K4TMC
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