[WriteLog] Outgoing Spots Only? (SPAMSPOTTING)

Mon Nov 6 18:26:24 EST 2006

 and then add in:
all the 
"That's NOT DX, stop spotting states!"
or "Your not obeying the band plan"
or...
"Your splattering
You have klix
your out of the band"
I think my monitor might melt down.
 PM
>> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Outgoing Spots Only?
>>>> That's what NCCC did. And it worked for them. 
>> Let's just do a little math. 
>> In my circle of contesting friends, about 50% are using WriteLog. Now that
> seems a little bit high percentage for a "national average", so let's
> assume a percentage of half that, or 25%. And let's further assume that
> only half those users are connected to a cluster, or 12.5%. .
>> So how many spam-spots would 12.5% of this weekends contesters have
> generated? 
>> Looking at the 3830 scores so far, the highest number of QSO's worked was
> 1454 by W6YI. Presuming he worked every station available all weekend,
> multiplying 1454 by .125 comes out to 182 stations as the potential
> universe of spam-spotters. 
>> If these stations worked an average of 300 Q's they'd spam-spot 54,600
> spots over the 30-hour contest, or about one every 2 seconds on average. 
> This in addition to all the spots generated by the remaining 75% of us who
> wouldn't be equipped to spam-spot.
>> Bad idea!
>> YMMV.
>> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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