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Fewer than 3% of contesters self-spotted in ARRL DX CW 2024
I gathered manual (non-reversebeacon) spots from 9 Telnet cluster nodes around the world over the 48-hour ARRL DX CW 2024, deduped them, and counted self-spots to see how widely self-spotting has been adopted, 14 months after the ARRL allowed self-spotting by all entrants in ARRL contests.
(Note that almost all other major HF contest sponsors do not allow self-spotting and strictly forbid it!)
I also included as self-spots, the case where the spotting station(s) used a different call than the spotted call. This was not at all rare; many contesters used a special call for the contest but were, for example, logged into the cluster with their regular call. Other DXpedition teams seem to have specifically logged in to clusters and spotted using multiple members home calls - a wise choice for when the target audience may have geographic filters on what spots they receive.
Only 134 stations self-spotted in this contest, if I ignore stations that self-spotted themselves less than 10 times. There will be more than 5000 logs submitted for ARRL DX CW this year, so this is less than 3% of all entrants who have adopted self-spotting. I'm honestly surprised the uptake has been so low. In fact, the number of posts to cq-contest on the subject of self-spotting in the past 14 months far exceeds the number of self-spotters.
Below is the list of the 134 stations making use of self-spotting, and the calls they self-spotted under. A couple of the calls were not necessarily contesters but were DXpeditions or POTA activations. The self-spot counts below are after some aggressive deduping - for example if a station spotted themselves on multiple frequencies in the same minute I only counted it as a single self-spot.
#self- spots call spotted using calls ----- ----- ------------------- 632 CR6K CR6K CT1ILT 449 V3T V31TP 427 S53M S53M 341 W4NF W4NF 340 AA3B AA3B 306 W3LPL W3LPL 267 MW4R MW4R 261 K3LR K3LR 244 PJ2T K8ND PJ2T W0CG W4EE 238 OM2VL OM2VL 223 EA8RM EA8RM 202 CB0ZW CB0ZW 195 SK3W SK3W 191 N2AA W2MKM 186 OH5Z OH5Z 185 HG5E HA1AH 179 S57AL S57AL 170 WP3C WP3C 164 N4RV N4RV NN3W 160 ED3Z EA3DZ 159 8P5A 8P5A 154 KL7RA KL7RA KL7SB 148 EU4E EU4E 147 TO4A FM5KC 144 VE9AA VE9AA 144 K9RS K9RS 143 P44W P44W 141 NY6DX NY6DX 137 KU2C KU2C 135 KI1G KI1G 134 ED7W ED7W 133 LY9A LY9A 132 K3PA K3PA 130 N6RO N6RO 124 ND7K N6WIN 118 KH7M KH7M 115 W1JQ W1JQ 109 WY3A WY3A 105 IO4X I4VEQ IO4X 95 K9CT K9CT 90 TM6M F6KHM F8FTY 88 K6LL K6LL 86 N7DX N7DX 86 LY4A LY4A 85 RU1A RT1B RW1F 83 VP9I AB2E 80 DJ5MW DJ5MW 79 LY5W LY5W 78 W4RM W4RM 78 OM0R OM3GI 78 OK5Z OK5Z 77 9A1P 9A1P 74 NJ4P WV4P 70 IZ8FCA IZ8OLR 70 CR2N CR2N 69 HA5JI HA5JI 68 LY4L LY4L 67 ZF5T ZF5T 64 K4RUM K4RUM 63 EF6T EA3M 62 ZM4T ZM4T 59 KO1A IQ3IY 57 K1LZ K1LZ 56 K4AB W4AUD 54 HA6P HA6PX 52 S53F S53F 48 N0AX N0AX 48 JM1NKT JM1NKT 48 II1P IK1HJS 46 4X6FR 4X6FR 45 ZL3X ZL3X 45 HA1TJ HA1TJ 43 K2PO K2PO WN6W 42 8R7X 8R7X 40 N3AM N3AM 39 OX7AM OX7AM 35 HA3DX HA3DX 33 N9RV N9RV 33 FY5KE FY5KE 33 AO100RADIO EA1Z 32 KQ3F KC3WX 32 K7RI K7RI 31 NR3X N4YDU 30 OE8DDX OE40WO 29 VE4GV/6Y VE4GV/6Y 29 N8UM N8UM 29 IQ9MY/P IT9CAR IT9NVA 28 HA3MAR HA6PX 27 HC5CW HC5CW 27 EC2AG EA2BXS EA2XG 26 VY1AAA VY1AAA 26 N7EPD N7EPD 26 KH6LC NH6V 26 II2C IQ2CJ IZ2GRG 23 Z68BB S53BB 23 PJ5/SP9FIH PJ5/SP9FIH 23 II4INTU IK4UXA 22 NS3T NS3T 22 9A5Y 9A5Y 21 LX7I DK9IP 20 SN3A SQ2GXO 20 N3AD N3AD 20 K0RF K0RF 20 IT9RGY IB9A 19 WO4O WO4O 19 SC3A SC3A 19 HA5PP HA5PP 18 W7RM N6TR 18 KT4XA NV4B 18 C6ANM C6ANM 17 PY2PLL PY2PLL 17 K8CX K8CX 17 FH4VVK FH4KS 16 R35AFZ RM9RZ 16 NR4M NR4M 16 EH3AMOR EA3HLM 15 N2FT N2FT 15 K9NW K9NW 15 IQ5QO/P IZ5GST 14 K4IU K4IU 14 K3TS K3TS 14 DK1FG PF88ANT 13 XV9T XV1X 13 W2XX W2XX 13 S57K S57K 13 R35DRA RA4AAT 13 PP5AX PP5AX 13 N4XL N4XL 13 CW5W CW5W 12 R2QA RK3QWA 12 P49Y AE6Y 12 EH5AAW EC5CYI 11 V31XX V31XX 11 CB0ZA HI3AA
A compressed archive of the raw telnet cluster traffic from 9 worldwide cluster nodes throughout the contest is available at this link.