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<p><font face="Arial">1st of all, I absolutely respect your point of
view, of course, but for me, the key question is that those
spots are automatically generated by an application. If we all
agree on not to broadcast these type of spots (let's say,
reversebeacon spots) and receive them by choice on every node, I
also think that the same policy should be applied to these ones.
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<p><font face="Arial">Other reason is that the spots are not been
sent by the people actually hearing/working the WRTC SES by
themselves, but by a third one by auto means (again on a similar
way to rbn spotting architecture). <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">IMHO is just another way of cheerleading, like
self-spots could be. It can be useful, but also irritating if
you are trying to listen to real dx stns. <br>
Anyway, it is on every node sysop to reject them (as in the case
of RBN, FT-X, etc.). <br>
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<p><font face="Arial">Again, with all respect to others' opinions,
this is just mine ;-)<br>
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</font>73 & HNY de Mikel EA2CW<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 09/01/2023 a las 18:19, Keith Maton
via Dxspider-support escribió:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Perhaps I’m being naive but although there are a lot of spots for these WRTC award stations, they do appear to be genuine. They’re coming from award chasers who all seem to be using the same web site to log their QSOs which then sends out a spot.
Just because stations are being spotted a lot, why should we remove them?
I initially looked at these spots with a view to stopping them but the more I thought about it, I decided I didn’t think it was a good idea.
There are lots of spots posted for dxpeditions, especially busy ones. We wouldn’t consider removing or blocking those, why would we look at blocking these award station spots?
In fact, yesterday, I used the spots to work a dozen or so of the WRTC stations. Some of them have big pileups so it was fun breaking them.
73 Keith G6NHU
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