[Dx-qsl] queries as spots

Chris Codella, W2PA w2pa at arrl.net
Fri Aug 17 12:32:14 EDT 2007


I occasionally see cluster spots that are not spots at all.  Some can be 
useful, even amusing, such as when there's a flare and everything goes dead.

But increasingly, the non-spot spots are questions about QSLs or are 
notifications that somebody has received a QSL.  It seems to be on the 
rise.  Shouldn't things like this go into a message to ALL or into a 
forum or mailing list?  Surely it doesn't belong in a DX spot.  If you 
like to keep the cluster running in the background it invariably causes 
bogus alerts.

Do any of you find this annoying as I do?  It's a kind of DX Cluster 
spam, isn't it?  What can be done?

73,
Chris, W2PA


More information about the DX-QSL mailing list