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Data Accuracy

Please note that the data coming out of Spothole is only as good as the data going in. People mis-hear and make typos when spotting callsigns all the time. There are also plenty of cases where Spothole's data, particularly location data, may be inaccurate. For example, there are POTA parks that span multiple US states, countries that span multiple CQ zones, portable operators with no requirement to sign /P, etc. If you are doing something where accuracy is important, such as contesting, you should not rely on Spothole's data to fill in any gaps in your log.

In the Spothole user interface, under "Your Data", you can enter your credentials for QRZ.com and/or HamQTH if you have them. This allows Spothole to augment its data with lookups from these services. See the following section, Privacy, for details of how these are handled. If you are looking at the map and see lots of spots in the geographic centre of countries, allowing these lookups will help. For QRZ.com a paid account is required to look up operator locations.

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