[CQ-Contest] Posting packet spots in SS

[Jimk8mr at aol.com]

There are some folks out there who, for better or worse, take SS as an SWL 
contest for spotting calls on the packetcluster.

For a number of years a local here in the Cleveland area, K8ZHU, would be on 
every year spotting things in SS.  After phone SS he would not log onto the 
cluster until the following November.  I don't know if he ever actually 
worked anybody.  He never worked me, but then again I am usually cranking 
pretty fast on CW. He never worked me on SSB. 

I'm don't know who is doing it now, but the "WD8WVC" who was spotting things 
last weekend is not a valid callsign in the current FCC database. I believe 
that last year there was also somebody posting from a bogus callsign. 

If these guys bug you about not putting the section in the remarks field, 
maybe you can just post the station with the word "section" in the remarks.


73  -  Jim  K8MR


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