[CQ-Contest] Contest Spots

[Nick Lekic]

Say you are AA1AA and you want to spot DX0DX under identity of  BB1BB:

You go like this.

dx/bb1bb 14000.00  dx0dx   Contest    

And the spot will appear as if it was posted by BB1BB.     This works on 
CLX based Cluster nodes.   Dont know about others.  


73  Nick
va3na

Gerry Hull wrote:

>Very interesting, Jamie.
>
>According to a QRZ search this morning, the first two spots:
>
>>K4FWC    21246.5 YP3A                                     YO1828 02 Mar 2002
>>K7LPK     21246.5 YP3A        vy gud sig              YO1844 02 Mar 2002
>>
>
>are bogus calls, not even issued!
>
>So, I would say you have something here.
>
>73,
>
>Gerry, W1VE
>
>>During the recent dustup over spotting, I decided to search the DX summit
>>database
>>for my call - just to see what might be on there.   I am not an active
>>spotter - one time
>>I sent in a spot after working some DX, mainly just to see my call pop up on
>>the screen.
>>
>>When I searched for NS3T, I found a second spot which was listed as if I
>>submitted it
>>during the ARRL DX SSB contest - the contact was with YP3A.
>>
>>I got curious and decided to check out the spots involving YP3A from that
>>contest.
>>It is somewhat revealing.
>>
>>There were forty unique calls involved with YP3A spots.  All showed YP3A as
>>the DX.
>>
>>I checked every single call in the same spot database to see if these
>>stations posted
>>spots on a regular basis - and half did so - familiar calls like W3LPL,
>>K1AR, W4MYA.
>>All seemed fine there.   There was one cheerleader (N2GM) who spotted
>>YP3A a bunch of times - in each case on 15 meters...but that did not
>>interest me.
>>
>>Remember, what got me into this was that my call (NS3T) was listed as
>>posting YP3A.
>>14 of the 40 spots for YP3A (35%) were by stations that had no spots during
>>2002, and
>>some of them had never posted a spot at all.
>>
>>This is the list:
>>
>>K4FWC    21246.5 YP3A                                     YO1828 02 Mar 2002
>>K7LPK     21246.5 YP3A        vy gud sig              YO1844 02 Mar 2002
>>NS3T        21246.5 YP3A                                     YO2010 02 Mar
>>2002
>>KJ7UO     21246.5 YP3A                                     YO2050 02 Mar
>>2002
>>K1QK       21246.5 YP3A                                     YO2052 02 Mar
>>2002
>>W1AMJ    21246.5 YP3A                                    YO2100 02 Mar 2002
>>W4IMF     21246.5 YP3A                                    YO2106 02 Mar 2002
>>W3ARS     21246.5 YP3A                                    YO2126 02 Mar 2002
>>W0GHZ    21246.5 YP3A                                    YO2130 02 Mar 2002
>>N1BFF      21246.5 YP3A                                      YO2136 02 Mar
>>2002
>>K2EVY     21246.5 YP3A                                    YO2144 02 Mar 2002
>>KA9ZLR    21246.5 YP3A                                    YO2238 02 Mar 2002
>>KG4GNO  21246.5 YP3A                                    YO2256 02 Mar 2002
>>
>>
>>Like I said - for all of these stations, this was their ONLY spot of the
>>entire
>>contest on the DX Summit database and for seven, the ONLY spots involving
>>their
>>calls for all of 2001 & 2002.
>>
>>What's more interesting is that each spot is on the same frequency over a
>>several hour period.  Others did spot YP3A during this time - a couple had a
>>slightly
>>different frequency posted.
>>
>>What does it mean?
>>
>>Does it mean that someone at YP3A was posting spots, under the guise of
>>someone else's call in the US?   I am hesitant to accuse anyone of
>>wrongdoing.
>>
>>Maybe some of these US stations made only one spot in the contest and
>>it happened to be YP3A.
>>
>>All I know is, I did not spot YP3A - but someone submitted a spot under
>>my call....and the evidence shows I might not have been the only one.
>>
>>Any thoughts from the contest community?
>>
>>Jamie NS3T
>>
>>
>>
>>
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