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dl8obf on 2008-03-31
I actually have my boubts that such a blacklist would work. Those guys who deliberately post wrong spots could be do so using arbitrary callsigns.

But obviously there must be such guys who deliberately spot wrong callsigns, or how can you misspell 30 and 3O ? During the WPX there were lots of these which are difficult to catch from the glimpsy CRT-screens :-(.

Vy 73
Uwe, DL8OBF

NF1R on 2008-03-22
It would be great to be able to blacklist certain spotters so that their lousy spots don't show up on the bandmap. The busted spots are often obvious, so why not let us filter out the idiots? Or is this feature already available?

wy7i on 2008-03-16
A complete waste of time. Haven't we got better things to do?

N7RQ on 2007-10-29
Am I imagining things, or do I really keep finding large US contest stations on recently-posted DX freqs during contests? Hope this is just coincidence, but it sure happened a lot during the CQWWSSB test this past weekend. Mistakes happen, but some mistakes happen on purpose. Perhaps spotlights and analyses are good things.

k1uo on 2007-10-26
Wow!!! Now we have cluster police too? What's it all coming to? Last I knew it was the responsibility of the Cluster user to verify the accuracy of a posted call if he/she intends to use the spot for a contest score or mult. otherwise just randomly work the Callbook.
The self spotting abuse by some Contest entrants, however, is a seperate toxic topic.

Lessrulesmorefun on 2007-10-21
A dumb idea.

K6VVA on 2007-10-05
Why not? Use technology to its fullest.

Just, umh, err, ahhhhh...DO IT!!!

73...

Rick, K6VVA

AA3B on 2007-08-07
think this would help improve the accuracy of spots. You get what you measure!

I note that UBN / NIL reports have increased my focus on getting my logs to be as accurate as possible.

I suspect that the K1TTT post contest analysis of self spotting has brought pressure on the offenders to knock it off.

Therefore, I believe that a focus on spotting accuracy through post contest analysis will improve the overall quality of spots.

Not that I ever spot anyone in a contest...

KB9CRY on 2007-07-23
Who's going to generate the list?

Not me.

Anonymous on 2007-07-19
Who actually trusts the accuracy of spots 100% during a contest??? besides, a station spotted on the East coast may not be heard on the West coast or on another continent, thus, who's to say that spot was or was not accurate? Define accuracy, Call, Freq? +/- How many Hz? The cluster is best used as a tool to see where propogation may be.

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