<div dir="ltr"><div>Among the 424 contests supported by the DXLog contest logger, 29 contests currently allow self spotting. </div><div>Among them are all ARRL contests and a fair share of the US state QSO parties. </div><div><a href="http://dxlog.net/sw/contestlist.php" target="_blank">http://dxlog.net/sw/contestlist.php</a></div><div><br></div><div>I have no problem if individual node operators want to block certain spots for religious, political, or ideological </div><div>reasons but I cannot see how the default handling of self spots could be determined by a poll. Self spots are a fact.</div><div><br></div><div>Björn SM7IUN<br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 3:08 PM Rudy Bakalov <<a href="mailto:r_bakalov@yahoo.com" target="_blank">r_bakalov@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Why is this a poll for sysops? Clusters exist to serve the users. ARRL allows self spotting so if self spots were to be banned that would be imposing frivolous restrictions on users.<div><br></div><div>Rudy N2WQ <br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Sent using a tiny keyboard. Please excuse brevity, typos, or inappropriate autocorrect.</span></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 10, 2023, at 8:57 AM, Dirk Koopman <<a href="mailto:djk@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">djk@tobit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
<font size="4">I am conducting a poll to determine whether or not to
allow selfspotting below 23cms. <br>
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I would appreciate it if you would respond to this poll by next
Friday.<br>
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<a href="https://strawpoll.com/polls/6QnMOQzkoZe" target="_blank">https://strawpoll.com/polls/6QnMOQzkoZe</a><br>
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73 Dirk G1TLH<br>
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