I agree. Many times when I was at KH6 at the bottom of the cycle, I would self spot on 10 or 12 since the band was supposedly dead and no one was listening. The boys in EU would be very happy and more often than not I'd be rewarded with a Q on a "dead band". Many times that one Q would be followed by a string of more EU Qs. In fact, at the bottom of the cycle I managed over 50 or 60 Qs with EU (a polar path) doing the self spot. Now remember, that was a "dead band". Now as for self spotting on 15 at 1300Z, that is a no-no as far as I am concerned. Bill K4XS/KH7XS In a message dated 2/7/2015 12:31:13 P.M. Coordinated Universal Time, mikew...@gmail.com writes:
Pardon my ignorance, but if there is little or no activity on 160, what harm does spotting one's own "CQ DX" do? I know it's frowned upon, but I have never understood why. I called CQ DX for awhile this morning before dawn, and no one answered. I know that propagation was decent, because I worked a VK2, K1N, and heard other DX. Perhaps if I would have spotted myself on the DX cluster, then some DX station would have taken notice and answered me. Not everyone tunes the bands looking for CQs all the time (like I did this AM after K1N's sunrise). But lots of people monitor the cluster. Just who would I have harmed (any why) if I would have self-spotted myself? 73, Mike www.w0btu.com _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
