[SJRA-Members] Trouble with N1MM not spotting my contacts

[Bob Beyer]

Hi Rich.

S&P means search and pounce vs "running" (calling CQ). 

N1MM doesn't really do self spotting since the vast majority of contests prohibit it. Ours is really more special event than contest.

Use www.dxsummit.fi to generate manual spots of your own on the web. I also like a program from VE7CC which specializes in dx cluster spots but it has a slight learning curve. You can use it to make manual spots also. 

Auto spotting during S&P is good as long as your tuning around. Every so often a station calling CQ will leave this on and fill the band map with all the stations they work on one frequency.  

ESM is a useful mode for experienced ops mainly on CW and RTTY where the exchanges are pre-programmed on the function keys. When you're "running" and in the groove, you can really bang them out with very little typing and just pressing the Enter key. 

Bob - KE2D

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> On Jun 13, 2016, at 8:32 PM, Richard VonLintig <kv2rrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Joe and all,
> 
> I think you mean the line that says "Spot All S&P QSOs" that is on the
> Config menu of the latest version of N1MM.
> 
> Or maybe it is the one that says "Enter Sends Message (ESM Mode)"?  No, I
> don't think so.
> 
> I used the config menu to configure ports, etc., and to change station
> data, but did not look at it much after that.  And I just noticed that the
> state of the Spot All S&P QSOs" button shows is reflected by a check mark
> to the left of it if it is on.  So I guess that was my trouble.
> 
> The manual does not seem focused on self spotting.  That is where I mostly
> went for help.
> 
> What does S&P mean?
> 
> Rich  KV2R
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 7:13 PM, KC2TN <kc2tn at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> There's an option to check under "tools" or "CConfig tools SPOT all Qso's.
>> 
>> Joe - KC2TN
>> 
>>>> On Jun 12, 2016, at 4:43 PM, Richard VonLintig <kv2rrich at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Joe
>>> 
>>> While operating as K2AA/100 I did not Getz any spots from N1MM.  One guy
>> spotted me,but I could not spot myself.  I'm sure it was operator error.
>> Is there a button needed to be pressed to cause a spot?  I thought I had
>> set up the telemetry windows correctly, and the cluster did accept my
>> automatic login when I opened the telnet window.  but I thought it was
>> supposed to automatically give out a spot message when each contact was
>> entered.  I guess that would be somewhat repetitious.  But I did not find a
>> button to cause a manual spot.
>>> 
>>> Not too much harm done as I did get 65 contacts in 3 hours.  Does not
>> sound like much, but need to explain contest, etc.  Really had not much
>> free time.  Could not Getz through to Ireland despite most of my time on 20
>> m and much of that pointed at 50 deg.  Got a lot of VE and Main, plus a lot
>> of 4s and 5s off back of beam.
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