<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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                <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>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN"> </span></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span lang="EN">Show the
                      following message
                      in the window:</span></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
                <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>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">73, Jose – CX2SA</span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
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                  <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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                <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                  <p class="MsoNormal">A lot of contests (for instance
                    all ARRL contests) allow
                    self spotting these days.</p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                    <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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                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Am I doing something wrong or
                      does this need fixing?</p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">Björn SM7IUN</p>
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