Not-standard autospot procedure

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Since it’s not yet a fully solved issue, it seems this is a recurrent subject.

Selfspotting on SSB by CW CQing on SSB desired QRG

Dear all, It’s been written several times on this Reflector that SOTA operation on SSB is hard when it’s not possible to have cell phone signal available from a summit and the operator can’t selfspot. It’s definitely true and even when having cell phone signal available, the fact of having to type the info on the phone to raise a selfspot in the cold, wind and/or rain, produces a certain upheaval to the operator as well as a waste of some valuable time. I have been thinking about possibly CW …

SSB SOTA spotting using CW and RBN

As an SSB (never quite got the hang of CW!) only operator, I’ve used a combination of cellular spotting (usually about 60% successful) and APRS spotting (typically handles most other situations). However, there are times when neither spotting method works and then I’m stuck calling CQ and that can be fruitless. Since my KX3 can store canned CW messages as a last resort spotting method can I transmit a canned messaged in CW band, allow RBN to spot and then convey additional information in the C…

Cheers,

Guru