<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Once self spotting is allowed, chaos will ensue. People will think they can spot every station they work on their frequency and the whole idea of the cluster becomes invalid. Just my 2d worth. Of course, it could just be my GOM kicking in<div><br></div><div>73 Ian (G0VGS)<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 10 Mar 2023, at 15:11, Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Thanks Dirk,<div><br></div><div>Since dozens of HF contests allow and even encourage self spotting, they should <br></div><div>simply never be blocked. On any node.</div><div><br></div><div>Björn SM7IUN<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 2:03 PM Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</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">
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<div>We had a mini poll about this some time
ago and there was an large majority against self spotting below
23cm. <br>
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But it's just a tunable variable which you can change on your
node: set/var $Spot::minselfspotqrg 0<br>
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But I will create a Doodle and we can try the poll again.<br>
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Dirk<br>
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On 10/03/2023 12:44, Björn Ekelund via Dxspider-support wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks Jose,
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<div>Given how many contests allow, and even encourage, self
spotting,
<div>self spots should no longer be blocked by anyone. </div>
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<div>Björn SM7IUN<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at
1:26 PM CX2SA - Jose Ma Gonzalez via Dxspider-support <<a href="mailto:dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a>>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Björn </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In my node are
not allowed self spots and </span><span><span lang="EN">I celebrate that.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN">I’m running
DXSpider V1.57
build 516 – Windows</span></span></p><div><span><span lang="EN"> </span></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN">Show the
following message
in the window:</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> (*) CX2SA/CX2SA
trying to self spot below
1240000KHz (21250 CX2SA) from 127.0.0.1, not passed
on to cluster</span></p><div><span lang="EN-US"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">73, Jose – CX2SA</span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
<div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,"sans-serif"" lang="ES">De:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,"sans-serif"" lang="ES">
Dxspider-support [mailto:<a href="mailto:dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk" target="_blank">dxspider-support-bounces@tobit.co.uk</a>]
<b>En nombre de </b>Björn
Ekelund via Dxspider-support<br>
<b>Enviado el:</b> viernes, 10 de marzo de 2023
05:14<br>
<b>Para:</b> The DXSpider Support list<br>
<b>CC:</b> Björn Ekelund<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> [Dxspider-support] Support for self
spotting</span></p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal">A lot of contests (for instance
all ARRL contests) allow
self spotting these days.</p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal">When I create a spot with my
own callsign on my DXSpider
node, all I get is "Sorry, this is a duplicate".</p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal">Am I doing something wrong or
does this need fixing?</p>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal">Björn SM7IUN</p>
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