Selfspotting on SSB by CW CQing on SSB desired QRG

[GM4LLD]

Guru, I thought I had proposed an SSB spotting system that used RBN, here is the original text:

In case you don’t know John G4YSS often operates a club call sign G0OOO (in Scotland GS0OOO)

@GM4LLD

You could always use RBNgate to spot your SSB signal. If you are going to activate as GS0OOO then what you could do is put an alert for the summit in as GM4YSS. So when you can’t get a phone signal you start CQing as GM4YSS on 14.0276 which gets spotted. You have Roy primed so when he sees a GM4YSS spot on 14.0276 he spots GS0OOO on 14.276 SSB (i.e CW kHz x10). It doesn’t matter that nobody works GM4YSS because the SSB chasers get to work GS0OOO when they wouldn’t have otherwise. And if someone comes back to GM4YSS, work 'em and log 'em. Simples!

The idea being you tell a chaser to look out for spots on CW of an alternate callsign and to spot SSB when they see the RBN spot. By multiplying the CW call frequency by 10 in SSB spot, the chaser who is monitoring knows which SSB frequency to spot. The alternate callsign being the key for the chaser watching that you intend to call on SSB.

It’s contrived and requires someone to know what to do and to look out for the special spots, but it would fit in with where skimmers are listening.