With all due respect to all...
One would think that if those who are relying on spots to be posted are less
than happy that there aren't enough spots posted... the solution would be to
turn the dial, the good-old-fashioned a-boy-and-his-radio way, rather than
insist or at least encourage (primarily or solely for this reason) others to
post more spots -- whether they wish to or not.
Spotting technology is a nice assist, a nice additional tool in the arsenal,
for those who desire to use it. But if one is relying on it too much, it stops
being a tool and starts becoming a crutch. IMHO.
73, ron w3wn
-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
To: reflector cq-contest <CQ-Contest@Contesting.COM>
Sent: Sun, Mar 6, 2022 10:05 am
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Getting more SSB spots
Some of you may have read my post about using this weekend's ARRL DX
contest to try for more countries on 160. Well, the contest on that
band is effectively over, and the results are in. I used Spot Collector
to give only 160-meter spots this weekend, and since Friday
night/Saturday morning I've received precisely 5, of which only one was
DX . This phenomenon, unfortunately, is precisely what leads to stupid
rule changes like ARRL's "self-spotting" idea.
It's sad, too, because something more than half of contesters use N1MM
Logger+, which has a convenient, zero-effort way to fix this. On the
Config menu in the Entry window, N1MM has the option to "automatically
spot all new S&P QSOs". If you check this option, you will spot every
S&P QSO you make, where the station has not been spotted within the last
10 minutes on the same band and mode. Imagine what a huge difference
this would make if even half of N1MM users turned it on.
73, Pete N4ZR
Check out the new Reverse Beacon Network
web server at<http://beta.reversebeacon.net>.
For spots, please use your favorite
"retail" DX cluster.
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