[CQ-Contest] Packet Spots in CQWW

[Dallas Carter]

We had that problem here on our 15m position.  One of the ops noted
that our spots were going out on the wrong frequency.  The same one
consistantly.  They stopped sending spots until I found the problem.
Someone had accidentally hit one of the memory buttons on the MP
and the indicator said "VMEM".  I reset it to VFO and that curred the
problem.  I have not tried to recreate the symptom, but it IS vfo related.

I have also seen this happen on 940's when the interface stops reading
the vfo.  The CT memory then just repeats the last known frequency
when using alt-F3.  Bottom line, it was probably cockpit trouble.  In the
heat of battle, this goes un noticed until someone sends you a kind packet
note, or another op sees the outgoing spots.

73  Dallas W3PP
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>
To: Scott Pederson <spederson at yahoo.com>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Cc: David B. Tucker, KA6BIM <dtucker at inreach.com>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Packet Spots in CQWW


> At 01:17 PM 10/28/2002 -0800, Scott Pederson KI5DR wrote:
>
> >I noticed that there were a few instances where there were several DX
> >spots for exactly the same frequency - apparently the running station was
> >sending packet spots for stations that worked him.  I'm sure this was
> >un-intentional, but would explain why you follow a packet spot and it
> >turns out to be someone else....
>
> Well, it wasn't us!  :-)
>
> On Saturday afternoon, KA6BIM put out a number of spots using the KC1XX 10
> meter run frequency (data from http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/)
>
> KA6BIM    28574.7 PY2BT          1933 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 LU3HIP         1934 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 VA3SK          1936 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 CK6SV          1937 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 KC1XX          1938 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 LP7H           1939 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 CE3N           1940 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 KD7GGZ         1941 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 WP2Z           1943 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 LT5H           1944 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 HI9X           1946 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 PP2RON         1947 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 CX5BW          1952 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 J69AZ          1953 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 CJ5DX          1954 26 Oct 2002
> KA6BIM    28574.7 LU7PT          1956 26 Oct 2002
>
> We were not working these stations, and I have no idea where they were on
> the band.  However, it did result in an inordinately large number of
> 0-point stateside callers, as you can see from the log extract below:
>
>      26-Oct-02  1937    895  28574  VE6FI        59  04                2
>      26-Oct-02  1941    899  28574  KM9Z         59  04                0
>      26-Oct-02  1942    900  28574  N3CY         59  05                0
>      26-Oct-02  1942    901  28574  K6DRK        59  03                0
>      26-Oct-02  1942    902  28574  WP4Z         59  08                2
>      26-Oct-02  1942    903  28574  K2NG         59  05                0
>      26-Oct-02  1944    904  28536  CE3N         59  12                3
>      26-Oct-02  1946    906  28574  W1NG         59  05                0
>      26-Oct-02  1946    907  28574  T2DX         59  31        T2      3
>      26-Oct-02  1947    908  28574  K8LN         59  04                0
>      26-Oct-02  1947    909  28574  N6GL         59  03                0
>      26-Oct-02  1949    910  28574  KC0IEE       59  04                0
>      26-Oct-02  1949    911  28574  K6GU         59  03                0
>      26-Oct-02  1949    912  28574  NK7U         59  03                0
>      26-Oct-02  1950    913  28574  VE9XA        59  05                2
>      26-Oct-02  1950    914  28574  PY2TSM       59  11                3
>      26-Oct-02  1950    915  28574  K5GPA        59  04                0
>      26-Oct-02  1951    916  28574  XE2LV        59  06                2
>      26-Oct-02  1953    918  28468  PV2M         59  11                3
>      26-Oct-02  1954    919  28570  HR8/YN4SU    59  07                2
>      26-Oct-02  1954    920  28574  VY2SS        59  05                2
>
> Perhaps the VFO that was being read for spotting was different than the
one
> he actually tuned with.  Note that he did actually spot KC1XX once, but
the
> VFO problem occurred before that spot, and continued afterwards.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C (one of 10 meter ops at KC1XX)
>
>
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