How to Block Out Frequencies on N1MM+ using OBS So You Don't Get Disqualified from Self Spotting!
Channel: N0SSC
Date: 2020-04-16

Thanks d3jake for yet another video idea. 

In ham radio contesting, self-spotting is not allowed. This is the practice of posting your own callsign and frequency to a DX cluster so that other stations can see you there and work you. BAD!

However, even if you don't do this but your contest livestream shows the frequencies you're operating on, that's still considered self-spotting and could get you DISQUALIFIED! Also BAD! 

This video explains how you can obscure or censor frequencies displayed on screen from being shown to YouTube or Twitch using OBS's "Color Source" and creating censor boxes over everywhere your frequency shows up. 

Of course, livestreaming in ham radio contests is still a controversial topic (just read the thread "Merging Social Media and Contesting" from CQ-CONTEST yourself: http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/cq-contest/2020-March/thread.html) but contest coordinators have thankfully not banned the practice. Yet. Hopefully they won't, but maybe there's a solution out there if they do. 

Get OBS at: https://obsproject.com/

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