[WIQPmail] Spotting

[Chad Kurszewski]

Here's my two cents.  They are not necessarily recommendations.

In nearly every contest that I'm familiar with, self-spotting is against
the rules.  DXpeditions, people on DX Holidays, County Hunters, or
whatever, that's fine, just not in contests.  So, I question the validity
of self-spotting during a QSO Party, which is quite similar to a contest,
where score is kept and prizes are awarded based on that score.  That said,
WARAC and the WQP rules do not explicitly ban self-spotting, nor using of
spotting nets in general.

Not against any sort of rules:  APRS and sticking to one frequency

APRS is very easy to do now-a-days.  You don't need any fancy gear, just a
modern (smart)phone.  There are APRS apps that uses your phone's GPS and
puts that info out there.  Anyone who's interested in seeing where you are
as a mobile, will know exactly where you are and when you cross a county
line.  Other WIQP mobiles have done this in the past, WARAC has even
published links to each mobile's APRS link, and one kind fellow even
generated a map overlay so people know exactly where the county lines are.

Now, combine that map with operating on the same frequency(s) during the
contest.  If you're on 7049.5 at the start of the contest, and stay on
7049.5 the entire time, those people who see the map, see that you've
crossed a line, can keep written or mental notes to find you again on
7049.5.  And, you can hope that those people will spot you, in your new
county, on that frequency.

Respectfully,
Chad WE9V

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:

> Thats why I suggested FOX's SS room.
> It would only be WIQP info, not the thousands of other states spottings
> mixed in.
> During the contest who has time to weed through all 50 states worth of
> counties looking for WIQP activity.?
>
> Joe WB9SBD
>
>
> On 2/3/2016 7:37 AM, Larry Peterson wrote:
>
> That could work nicely, Peter, and better/more appropriate than the DX
> cluster.  Now what would be useful is if the West Allis committee would
> recommend this...or something...where all avid WIQP contestants could turn
> to look for all of us mobile stations who wish to spot ourselves.   That
> way everyone is looking to the same resource center.
>
> 73,
>
> Larry
> www.WB9KMW.com <http://www.wb9kmw.com>
>
> On Feb 1, 2016, at 6:40 PM, Peter E. Beedlow < <nn9k.peter at gmail.com>
> nn9k.peter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> take a look at  <http://ch.w6rk.com/>http://ch.w6rk.com/ --county
> hunter's spotting page.
>
> Peter, NN9K
>
> *"the truth is out there"*
>
> On 2/1/2016 6:38:25 PM, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:
> Maybe ask KA9FOX if the WIQP could use the chat room he made for
> Sweepstakes?
>
> Joe WB9SBD
>
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> On 2/1/2016 6:20 PM, Larry Peterson wrote:
>
> Is there a good, acceptable way to spot ourselves as we operate MMM in
> many counties in WI?  We'd like to spot/announce the county we are in,
> especially for our 2m FM operation on 146.55 MHz.
>
> I looked at DX Clusters, but that does not seem at all appropriate.
>
> Also, we will send out APRS as KD9CSI-6 for those watching in that
> fashion.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Larry WB9KMW
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