>I learned (painfully) last year that many of my CQ CW dupes resulted
>
>from my call being busted on a couple of packet spots. The "packeteers"
>then worked me, not bothering to listen to whom they were really
>calling, all the time thinking they had "a new one". Another reason
>packet should be s---canned.
>
>
> Jim Neiger
> N6TJ/ZD8Z
>
>
>
I can confirm, possibly adding something else to the above.
Last '97 cqww I was sb 80 and, among other similar episodes, I heard
a huge number of european stations calling EA8BH (not a weak signal)
like he was a JT.
Since no european repeated the correspondant callsign, and the
report, misleading on phone, was a 33 that is easily mixed up with a
23, I asked myself in how many logs EA8BH won't have appeared, and if
an unexisting JT station (if not partecipating, committee won't have his
logs to check) becomes anyway real because reported in so many logs
at similar time.
Vy 73,
Mauri I4JMY (one of IR4T)
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