[ILQSO] N1MM & cluster spotting

[w9dp at w9dp.us]

But other than the pileup possibly being bigger, without the county information in the spot, you have no way of knowing they are in a new county until you tune to their frequency and listen to an exchange. 

Since most mobiles spend about 30  minutes in a county, you might simply check on them every 30 minutes or so.

Danny W9DP




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Sent: Friday, October 15, 2021 10:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [ILQSO] N1MM & cluster spotting

Au contraire, mon ami! Spotting a mobile in a new county helps everybody.  The only downside is that the pileups get to be really big in a hurry!  Suggestion: do NOT zero beat the mobile.  Most of us run with fairly tight filters, but not so tight that we can't pick out stations a couple of hundred hertz off our frequency.  Not having everyone call exactly zero beat will often allow us to pick out two or three stations from each group of callers.

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Subject: Re: [ILQSO] N1MM & cluster spotting

Rovers and mobiles often will append their calls with the county they are in. Even if they do not, those doing the spotting can help everyone else out by including the county the station is being spotted in. Simply spotting a station in a QSO Party really does little to help anyone.

I am sure others will chime in with ideas as well.

Danny W9DP


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On Oct 15, 2021, 1:43 PM, at 1:43 PM, Jim McDonald <jim at n7us.net> wrote:
>I have little experience in state QSO parties.
>
>Does anyone have suggestions on how to use the bandmap or available 
>windows in N1MM+ since the program can't know if a spot of a rover in a 
>new county is needed if the same station was already worked in another 
>county?
>
>
>
>Jim N7US
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