[CQ-Contest] Fishy spots followed

Tonno Vahk tonno.vahk at mail.ee
Thu Apr 10 17:30:05 EDT 2003


Thanks for all the positive direct replies. Some people advised me to look
at uniques as well - stations that sumbitted only one spot. It proved to be
very interesting, well here is the outcome:

Out of all the 1018 unique spots 449 or 44% were made through summit (with @
sign)
Out of 1018 spots 159 or 16% had decimal places in frequency.
30 stations had 7 or more unique spots in the contest. They had 366
together. I give you data about all those 30.

17 stations of those 30 are typical DX stations who have many uniques for
obvious reasons - they are spotted by DXers. Their spots are characterized
by:

Average number of @ spots
Above average "decimal place" spots
Very various comments. Comments on roughly half of spots.
US calls are in FCC database!

A good average example is HC8N:

JA3CZY @ 3793  HC8N WPX for JA         1053 30 Mar
ZL2AAA  3799.5  HC8N                              833 29 Mar
OE8YDQ  3803  HC8N big sig but out of eu band 359 29 Mar
XE1RAB @ 3803  HC8N Galapagos Is         238 29 Mar
DF0AK  3807  HC8N dwn 3737                     432 30 Mar
K5LP  3807  HC8N                                      514 30 Mar
LX1RQ  3807  HC8N qsx 3737                     443 30 Mar
JI1PYO @ 7081.6  HC8N                              1026 30 Mar
N2BT  7081.6  HC8N QSX 7204                     854 30 Mar
OE6AC @ 7081.6  HC8N strong                     418 30 Mar
JA9AVA  7093  HC8N                                  1046 29 Mar
N4XOG  14202.9  HC8N                              1321 29 Mar
DL5GAC  14203  HC8N WPX                         832 29 Mar
AB5EU @ 14217  HC8N                                 1342 30 Mar
JA5LI @ 14265.5  HC8N VY FB                     754 30 Mar
OM3TZZ  21175  HC8N                                  2004 30 Mar
IK4HPU  21250.4  HC8N                                  2005 29 Mar
JA2VMU @ 21352.9  HC8N test                     553 29 Mar
LU2APV @ 28306  HC8N contest.......!!!!!!!!!! 2137 30 Mar
JR1KSK @ 28518  HC8N                                  2 29 Mar

It is perfectly fine and logical that there are unique spots like that for a
station like that.
This is also the way how the spots of following stations look like:

9M2RPN - 7 spots
9S1X - 9 spots
A61AJ - 8 spots
C5P - 10 spots
D44TD - 9 spots
D4B - 7 spots
DP1POL - 7 spots
J5UDX - 9 spots
P3A - 9 spots
S9SS - 8 spots
ST0RY - 65 spots
ST2CF - 12 spots
TO4T - 7 spots
V60A - 14 spots
XT2TI - 10 spots
YW4M - 8 spots

Now look at JU1DX spots:

JH3EWU @ 14205  JU1DX                      7 29 Mar
JH0TRH @ 14215  JU1DX                      148 29 Mar
WV6E @ 14235  JU1DX                          251 29 Mar
UA4FK @ 14235  JU1DX                          304 29 Mar
UA3FG @ 14235  JU1DX wpx                     331 29 Mar
JA3QPL @ 21282  JU1DX                          441 29 Mar
YT1SD @ 21425  JU1DX loud                     808 29 Mar
PA3WUD @ 21425  JU1DX                          810 29 Mar
JH5RED @ 7050  JU1DX                              1238 29 Mar
JG3PDQ @ 7050  JU1DX                              1245 29 Mar
JN1UKH @ 3795  JU1DX                              1938 29 Mar
7L3QPF @ 3795  JU1DX Mongolia                 1953 29 Mar
IK3WPY @ 7035  JU1DX                                  2059 29 Mar
DL5TD @ 7035  JU1DX                                  2109 29 Mar
IK3EYG @ 7063  JU1DX wpx                         2137 29 Mar
ON5RD @ 7063  JU1DX                                  2138 29 Mar
G3EWV @ 7033  JU1DX wpx                            2328 29 Mar
K4SQ @ 14185  JU1DX                                  17 30 Mar
JH5TDC @ 28478  JU1DX                              50 30 Mar
7L3EWH @ 28478  JU1DX                              128 30 Mar
JH5TPX @ 21188  JU1DX wpx                         623 30 Mar
UR5GR @ 7030  JU1DX                                  2025 30 Mar
JK2QPR @ 7045.5  JU1DX                              2050 30 Mar
K4ER @ 14205  JU1DX                                     2340 30 Mar
W7KHS @ 14205  JU1DX wpx                         2341 30 Mar
N4TV @ 14205  JU1DX                                  2345 30 Mar
PY7HY @ 14205  JU1DX                                  2354 30 Mar
PA0RDY @ 14205  JU1DX wpx                     2359 30 Mar

All 28 spots are with @ sign! - As I am a lot into math and statistics in my
job, I like probablities, this probability is 0.000000000104!
All but one have no decimal places in frequency! Spots following each other
on the band are usually exactly on same frequency. This probability is
around 1.5%
All but two comments are "wpx"! For some reason this seems to be a very
popular comment with fishy spots.
Out of US calls W7KHS is not issued by FCC. I did not check non-US calls.
There are 5 desperate spots on 14205 in the last 20 minutes of the contest.

For reference this is NS3T's data about JT1BV from last years WPX SSB:

****
JT1BV

In the WPX SSB, there were 22 spots of JT1BV.
16 of those 22 spots were via IRC/DX Summit.
Those produced 15 "unique" calls:

EA1TI     28480  JT1BV           Sun Mar 31 04:50:00 2002
JA1WQL  28525  JT1BV       Sun Mar 31 03:30:00 2002
JH5HDA  28485  JT1BV       Sun Mar 31 03:21:00 2002
DS2AHI  28485  JT1BV cq     Sun Mar 31 03:09:00 2002
JA3ULR  28485  JT1BV test     Sun Mar 31 02:50:00 2002
UQ1D      28510  JT1BV Mongolia     Sun Mar 31 02:42
EA1WYF  28545  JT1BV       Sat Mar 30 09:41:00 2002
IK5VHU  28690  JT1BV       Sat Mar 30 08:34:00 2002
RA3SA    28690  JT1BV       Sat Mar 30 08:22:00 2002
9A5ST     28690  JT1BV       Sat Mar 30 07:44:00 2002
DL1BBR  28400  JT1BV naran u get qsl 0n 40m 4  Sat Mar 30 07:10
YT7TY    28690  JT1BV       Sat Mar 30 06:41:00 2002
RZ6BU   28690  JT1BV       Sat Mar 30 06:32:00 2002
KC7UP   28605  JT1BV       Sat Mar 30 02:58:00 2002
WA6AQQ  28605  JT1BV cq contest!  Sat Mar 30 02:49:00

For what it's worth, there were five self-spots for JT1BV as well:

JT1BV     28480.0 JT1BV       contest    0205 30 Mar 2002
JT1BV     28485.0 JT1BV                  0314 30 Mar 2002
JT1BV     28685.0 JT1BV       cq contest!0621 30 Mar 2002
JT1BV     28495.0 JT1BV                  0701 30 Mar 2002
JT1BV     28690.0 JT1BV                  0733 30 Mar 2002

*******

LV7H this year:

ND0T @ 14310  LV7H TEST             335 29 Mar
OK1RE @ 14209  LV7H                      646 29 Mar
EA5FIA @ 28531  LV7H wpx             1226 29 Mar
DL7GFR @ 28549  LV7H                  1600 29 Mar
W3GY @ 28542  LV7H                      1802 29 Mar
W3FDT @ 14148  LV7H wpx             327 30 Mar
IK3FSU @ 28439  LV7H                      1452 30 Mar
SP5JGY @ 28564  LV7H                      1728 30 Mar
IK5DGR @ 14253  LV7H                      2142 30 Mar
W9GFT @ 21397  LV7H                      2308 30 Mar

All @, no decimals, W9FDT and W9GFT bogus calls.

LV7H last year:
*****
During the contest, there were 54 spots of LV7H.
34 of those came from DX Summit.

Of those 34 spots, 27 of the spotting calls were
unique - meaning that station only spotted LV7H
during the contest.  In fact, only two of these uniques
had  previous spots on record.

As many as 18 of those 27 uniques were also inactive
calls, depending on the source (Buckmaster, etc.)
There were no inactive US calls found.

K3DZ    14155   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 22:44:00 2002
OH2TR   28667   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 18:48:00 2002
4Z5LJ   28544   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 17:45:00 2002
IZ3ETV  28515   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 15:25:00 2002
ES7DR   28597   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 14:29:00 2002
ZS6IR   28530   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 13:56:00 2002
F5FTR   28665   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 13:14:00 2002
DL5GHY  28566   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 12:39:00 2002
SP7FGT  28463   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 12:14:00 2002
JA5GDT  21277   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 02:25:00 2002
UT1AS   14234.5 LV7H      Sun Mar 31 01:29:00 2002
JA5GDT  21277   LV7H      Sun Mar 31 02:25:00 2002
UT1AS   14234.5 LV7H      Sun Mar 31 01:29:00 2002
IK5DFT  21204   LV7H WPX  Sat Mar 30 19:29:00 2002
ZS5DRF  28553.5 LV7H      Sat Mar 30 18:37:00 2002
PY2FYS  28689   LV7H      Sat Mar 30 17:11:00 2002
UR5TD   28553   LV7H      Sat Mar 30 16:05:00 2002
OH7GH   28429   LV7H      Sat Mar 30 12:19:00 2002
OM7M    28485   LV7H      Sat Mar 30 12:17:00 2002
EA4DLE  28422   LV7H      Sat Mar 30 11:46:00 2002
DL1ERK  28575   LV7H WPX  Sat Mar 30 11:13:00 2002
SP6GTY  28534   LV7H WPX  Sat Mar 30 10:53:00 2002
DL3FTN  14157   LV7H WPX  Sat Mar 30 06:55:00 2002
EA3ARL  14338   LV7H WPX  Sat Mar 30 06:25:00 2002
JF2ERD  21266   LV7H WPX  Sat Mar 30 05:09:00 2002
JA7DHE  28537   LV7H WPX  Sat Mar 30 04:40:00 2002
JA1FDE  21218.5 LV7H CONTET VIA LU7HF Sat Mar 30 01:51
**********

UA9YAB this year:
JH1ACX @ 7066  UA9YAB                      1218 29 Mar
N7UJN @ 7066  UA9YAB 7208             1228 29 Mar
JK1WSM @ 7081  UA9YAB 7206         1315 29 Mar
JK1GBX @ 7074  UA9YAB                  1359 29 Mar
JH5MBX @ 7085  UA9YAB                  1426 29 Mar
JH1AZH @ 7085  UA9YAB                      1631 29 Mar
IV3ZXC @ 7085  UA9YAB                      1654 29 Mar
I1BNP @ 7044  UA9YAB wpx                 1930 29 Mar
OK2DCM @ 7081.8  UA9YAB                  2312 29 Mar
LZ4PV @ 7081.8  UA9YAB 208                 2340 29 Mar
JH7UNX @ 7053  UA9YAB                      1329 30 Mar
JM1UJZ @ 7053  UA9YAB wpx                 1536 30 Mar
DL7SCM @ 7091  UA9YAB                      1724 30 Mar
ON5TB @ 7099.6  UA9YAB                      1914 30 Mar
IZ3EDM @ 7099.6  UA9YAB                      1949 30 Mar
PY6YM @ 7080  UA9YAB                          2302 30 Mar

All @...etc

and UA9YAB last year:
**********
During the WPX contest, there were 30 spots of UA9YAB.
Of those, 11 spots came via mIRC/DX Summit.

Of those 11 spots via mIRC, 9 of the calls were unique -
as many as seven of those uniques were also inactive calls,
depending on the source (Buckmaster, etc.)

The US inactives were:

W8JGX   28620   UA9YAB         Sun Mar 31 13:25
W4RFC   28355   UA9YAB            Sat Mar 30 13:39
K4JHV   28355   UA9YAB          Sat Mar 30 13:07
W7UAS   28546.3 UA9YAB        Sat Mar 30 01:37

Here are the other uniques:

PY7TFZ  28620   UA9YAB  Big in WPX  Sun Mar 31 11:53
JK7SXM  28528   UA9YAB      Sun Mar 31 03:44
JH1ACA  28440   UA9YAB      Sun Mar 31 01:19
SP7YHC  28536.6 UA9YAB      Sat Mar 30 06:55
JH1ACA  28545   UA9YAB      Sat Mar 30 01:06
**************

Now other stations from this year:

RA0FF

SP8UYS @ 28460  RA0FF                  602 29 Mar
JA1WTP @ 28460  RA0FF FB             603 29 Mar
DL1ED @ 21312.7  RA0FF                  847 29 Mar
JH7YMN @ 21180.5  RA0FF              932 29 Mar
DF5ZVL @ 21180.5  RA0FF wpx         940 29 Mar
WG6U @ 7053  RA0FF 177                 1045 29 Mar
VK3ZZA @ 7055  RA0FF -7179             1056 29 Mar
JJ1JJH @ 7072.2  RA0FF WPX                 1214 29 Mar
KI7HN @ 7072.2  RA0FF QRX 7180         1231 29 Mar
LU7HJL @ 21282.4  RA0FF wpx             335 30 Mar
UA1WEY @ 21303.3  RA0FF                  713 30 Mar
JH7UUZ @ 21252.6  RA0FF wpx             856 30 Mar
WB6TYF @ 7069.2  RA0FF qsx 7176     1008 30 Mar

All @, WB6TYF bogus call

RA0FU

N6ED @ 14180  RA0FU              608 29 Mar
N5CD @ 14180  RA0FU              624 29 Mar
N6TE @ 14180  RA0FU              633 29 Mar
9A7ZZ @ 21170  RA0FU              747 29 Mar
YO4FD @ 21170  RA0FU              816 29 Mar
DK4GF @ 21169.9  RA0FU              843 29 Mar
K7HJN @ 14190  RA0FU                  903 29 Mar
JA6HGJ @ 14193.9  RA0FU              1158 29 Mar
YO3KBA @ 14156.7  RA0FU          1301 29 Mar
YB2OBL @ 14206.6  RA0FU              2018 29 Mar
KI7AO @ 14206.3  RA0FU              426 30 Mar
KD7E @ 14206  RA0FU                  453 30 Mar
WQ5L @ 14206.2  RA0FU              509 30 Mar
KM6HK @ 14207.7  RA0FU              544 30 Mar
UT4UO @ 21182.5  RA0FU              738 30 Mar

All @, no comments on any spots.

D88S

K4KI @ 28435  D88S                  1420 29 Mar
K6KU @ 28450  D88S test         1839 29 Mar
HL5BRX @ 28435  D88S test         2213 29 Mar
RA1AN @ 28335  D88S test         1529 30 Mar
SP6KEP @ 28335  D88S              1538 30 Mar
K5UK @ 28335  D88S test             1839 30 Mar
EA5AN @ 28335.1  D88S              1840 30 Mar
K0GT @ 21365.1  D88S                  1913 30 Mar
IK8HO @ 21365  D88S                  1954 30 Mar
OK1FMK @ 21365  D88S              1954 30 Mar

All @, all comments "test"

DL1XX

UA1ZCG @ 14224  DL1XX wpx             837 29 Mar
WD4RTC @ 14222  DL1XX                  1125 29 Mar
KA1BVC @ 14320  DL1XX wpx             1926 29 Mar
CT1EAF @ 14211.5  DL1XX wpx             912 30 Mar
YO5BWI @ 14185.4  DL1XX                  1108 30 Mar
EA4DFF @ 14238  DL1XX contest             1554 30 Mar
PY2NHJ @ 14257.5  DL1XX wpx             1713 30 Mar
KB2FGR @ 14328.5  DL1XX wpx             1950 30 Mar

All @, familiar comments and ... all 3 US calls are bogus calls!!!

NY6DX

K2WER  7200  NY6DX                      1123 29 Mar
VE3NNH  14341  NY6DX cq test     1450 29 Mar
G3NDF  21352.4  NY6DX loud         1614 29 Mar
N2TWQ  21359.5  NY6DX                  2144 29 Mar
N2MOO  7280  NY6DX                      234 30 Mar
N2MEL  14322.4  NY6DX                  1448 30 Mar
N2MUN  28464  NY6DX                      1809 30 Mar
N2NGE  28315.3  NY6DX                  1947 30 Mar
ON4UN  14341.5  NY6DX                  2028 30 Mar

No @'s, K2WER and N2MEL are bogus calls.

II8A

IT9ERI @ 21217  II8A capri island                         1347 29 Mar
IZ3YTR @ 21290  II8A operat.ic8jah                     1527 29 Mar
IZ8EUZ @ 21250  II8A op.ic8jah capri is                 656 30 Mar
IZ4ERG @ 21250  II8A op ic8jah capri is                 859 30 Mar
IZ3WQT @ 21217  II8A op ic8jah wpx contest         1318 30 Mar
IW7SEA @ 21341  II8A vork north america             1416 30 Mar
UU3AER @ 21329  II8A                                          1604 30 Mar

All @, no decimals, no comments on comments really.

DJ1AA

DH5BM  21254  DJ1AA Mirko CQ Contest WPX vy    55 823 29 Mar
DL2AAL  21253.9  DJ1AA wpx                                     845 29 Mar
DL1OKB  21248  DJ1AA Mirko in WPX                         1648 29 Mar
DJ2AL  21240  DJ1AA wpx                                             1905 29
Mar
DK2OAF  21234  DJ1AA cq wpx                                     1317 30 Mar
DG5OBB  21170  DJ1AA cq wpx                                     1623 30 Mar
DL9AAA  21170  DJ1AA CQ WPX TEST                     2015 30 Mar

No @-s, similar comments

AM7HZ

W06T  14300  AM7HZ                              26 29 Mar
EA7HQ  21182  AM7HZ                          1811 29 Mar
K9FY  14173.5  AM7HZ CQ...Contest     2342 29 Mar
K2WY  14173.5  AM7HZ                          8 30 Mar
K9FG  14141  AM7HZ                              130 30 Mar
DL1ASS  14226.5  AM7HZ                          835 30 Mar
DL7NMD  21187  AM7HZ                          854 30 Mar

No @-s

LY4CW

K2YSY @ 14348  LY4CW CQ CONTEST         1203 30 Mar
YL3CI @ 14349  LY4CW                                  1335 30 Mar
LY3BY @ 14349.7  LY4CW WPX                     1336 30 Mar
IZ7EDQ @ 14349.3  LY4CW                               1717 30 Mar
UT5UKY @ 3687.1  LY4CW                              2018 30 Mar
YL2KF @ 3687.1  LY4CW                                  2153 30 Mar
YL8A @ 1822.7  LY4CW                                      2223 30 Mar
OH2FS @ 3686.6  LY4CW                                  2242 30 Mar
SP9QMP @ 1822.2  LY4CW                                 2319 30 Mar

All @

UU0JM

IZ8ETW  7042  UU0JM                          15 29 Mar
K8XS  7042.7  UU0JM QSX 7209         119 29 Mar
K1JU  7042.7  UU0JM UU0JM                 418 29 Mar
RK6AWO  7040  UU0JM wpx                 1430 29 Mar
9A4U  7040  UU0JM                              2136 29 Mar
K3QD  7040  UU0JM qsx 7207             10 30 Mar
RK6AWU  7040  UU0JM                      1549 30 Mar

No @, similar frequencies.

73
tonno
es5tv



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