[CQ-Contest] arrl dx ssb spot report

David Robbins K1TTT k1ttt at arrl.net
Mon Mar 8 16:27:37 EST 2004


My node logged 30463 spots over the arrl dx ssb weekend.

Most spotted DX:
DX	count
PJ2T	342
VQ5A	335
FY5KE	284
XF4IH	279
V26DX	241
V47KP	231
CN2R	216
8P1A	214
VP5B	205
KP4KE	191

most active spotters:
Spotter	count
W3LPL-4	1278
K9NS		578
W6YX		542
AA3B		478
K1TTT-5	436
KB9KEG	409
K3CT		355
W2IRT		353
AJ1M		349
K1IR-2	337

most consistent spotters:
spotter		dx		count
KP4CPD		KP4KE		44
W8TK/7		PJ2T		28
I5LNO			IZ5CML	24
W3LPL-4		DK6WL		23
K1MJ			KP2A		22
W3LPL-4		VQ5A		20
W3LPL-4		9A1A		19
W3LPL-4		RU1A		18
W3LPL-4		V26DX		18
To evaluate these numbers try this approach.  Use w3lpl as a standard.
assume he is running two stations on each band and is spotting
everything they hear fairly regularly.  Then look at the stations he
spotted, note that they are stations you would (on the east coast)
expect to be beacons on the bands out of europe or the carribbean...
they got around 20 spots each. 
assuming that w3lpl's crew is unbiased this is probably a good gauge of
how often one station would likely spot any one other station in the 48
hour period on all the bands.

it is interesting to look at all the spots for iz5cml... most are from
ed7zab-5 node, and a few from others... the list includes spots from:
K1QGG, K9LON, K5LGH, K7UJI, WA3DFT - not in latest buckmaster list
KC1ECF - not issued yet

more interesting are spots for kp2a.  many were made from n5in's node...
a nice pick to fake spot from as i can get ip's directly from there.
what really catches the eye on these is that i know many of the
spotters, and they have their own nodes, so why would they spot from
n5in's node?  a look at ip addresses tells the story:
3/6/2004 01:40Z  Logging in user K1MJ (tel36:66.185.39.227)
3/6/2004 08:29Z  Logging in user K4JA-4 (tel10:66.185.39.227)
3/7/2004 21:23Z  Logging in user K3CT (tel10:66.185.39.227)
3/6/2004 10:17Z  Logging in user K5NA (tel10:66.185.39.227)
3/7/2004 21:37Z  Logging in user N3AD (tel10:66.185.39.227)
3/6/2004 04:53Z  Logging in user W3LPL-4 (tel10:66.185.39.227)
3/6/2004 07:29Z  Logging in user K8AZ-4 (tel10:66.185.39.227)
3/6/2004 08:22Z  Logging in user W8ZA (tel10:66.185.39.227)
3/7/2004 19:23Z  Logging in user KP2A (tel14:66.185.39.227)
the ip belongs to:
OrgName:    wireless world llc 
OrgID:      WRLW
Address:    19 Estate Thomas,
Address:    St. Thomas VI 00802

it looks like kp4cpd and w8tk/7 are just good cheerleaders.

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Now ugly statistics about single spotter spots.  These are spots from
people that made only one spot the whole weekend.  There are two sources
of these, the cluster network and dxsummit.  An interesting check is the
percentage of spots for stations from each of these sources.

DX		total	all		dxsummit
		spots	singles	singles
XF4IH		279	65(23%)	20(7%)
5V7C		185	28(15%)	4(2%)
LY4A		113	44(39%)	0(0%)
HR5/OH3JF	105	15(14%)	2(2%)
5W0SB		102	22(22%)	6(6%)
VK9NB		86	30(34%)	10(12%)
3D2ZF		73	13(18%)	3(4%)
PY4RGS	72	24(33%)	0(0%)
HG3M		60	28(47%)	7(12%)
EA1WS		50	12(24%)	12(24%)

the interesting ones here are the ones with higher percentages but fewer
total spots.  some of these are explainable by being rare or non-contest
operations that attract dxers rather than contesters who are less likely
to make spots during the contest.  

more details on single spotter spots(note that k1ttt-14 spots are really
those that i got from dxsummit):
DTS			Spotter	FromNode	Dx	Freq	Comment
3/6/2004 16:32:00	XE1DFR	K1TTT-14	ZS6WPX	28545	BIG
SIGNAL
3/6/2004 16:10:00	CT1SDF	K1TTT-14	ZS6WPX	21253	CQ
CONTEST
3/6/2004 04:53:00	EA4FRT	K1TTT-14	ZS6WPX	14253	CQ
CONTEST
3/6/2004 11:59:00	I4MUH		K1TTT-14	ZS6WPX	21215
CQ CQ ARRL TEST
3/6/2004 11:03:00	PA3ERF	K1TTT-14	ZS6WPX	21215	CQ
CONTEST
3/6/2004 18:01:00	EA3RD		K1TTT-14	ZS6WPX	21253
cq cq
3/6/2004 20:48:00	K5LBU		K1TTT-14	ZS6WPX	14253
cq test
3/6/2004 15:50:00	EA4BOQ	K1TTT-14	ZS6WPX	21218	CQ CQ
TEST
note the stuck caps lock for most of the spots and integer frequencies
for all of them.

DTS			Spotter	FromNode	Dx	Freq	Comment
3/7/2004 22:54:00	K8YYE	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	14265	 
3/7/2004 02:35:00	K4JEW	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	7064	QSX
7263.0
3/7/2004 21:29:00	K1SJD	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	21312	 
3/7/2004 23:49:00	KB7CHA	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	7068	QSX 7194
3/7/2004 23:54:00	K9IUQ	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	7068	QSX
7194.0
3/7/2004 01:42:00	KE4TR	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	14264	 
3/6/2004 21:47:00	K0OQP	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	21355	 
3/7/2004 23:04:00	AA5FR	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	14253	 
3/7/2004 02:29:00	N6OOQ	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	7064	QSX 7239
3/6/2004 19:44:00	K2WWQ	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	21360	 
3/7/2004 21:18:00	K8IQI	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	14257	 
3/7/2004 18:37:00	K5RTR	SK3GW-6		PY4RGS	28430	 
3/7/2004 20:41:00	W8RRE	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	21317	 
3/6/2004 18:11:00	KC7GET	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	28454	 
3/7/2004 22:08:00	K1RRT	PY5UFP-11	PY4RGS	21313	 
3/7/2004 01:00:00	K2PPO	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	14236	 
3/6/2004 02:16:00	K8UQY	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	14310	 
3/7/2004 22:22:00	K8UYQ	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	21314	 
3/7/2004 03:26:00	KB4RRT	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	7054	QSX
7234.0
3/7/2004 00:18:00	K4JH	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	14260	 
3/7/2004 23:42:00	K5RET	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	7068	QSX 7194
3/7/2004 19:22:00	N1ERG	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	28417	 
3/6/2004 22:14:00	K9DH	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	21355	 
3/7/2004 00:50:00	KB4RRE	OZ5BBS-7	PY4RGS	14264	 
an interesting array of stateside spotters from oz5bbs including several
calls not in my latest buckmaster.  i didn't check them all, i'll leave
that as an exercise for the log checkers.  if anyone can get oz5bbs's ip
logs for those stations they would likely be very interesting also.

DTS	Spotter	FromNode	Dx	Freq	Comment
3/7/2004 06:45:00	W9JA	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7072	qsx 7187
3/6/2004 08:09:00	KA1LMR	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7033	qsx 7165
3/7/2004 21:29:00	N2ZUC	EA4URE-5	LY4A	14349.6	 
3/7/2004 03:31:00	W1CYB	EA4URE-5	LY4A	3772	3855
3/7/2004 21:52:00	AA0AI	EA4URE-5	LY4A	14349.7	 
3/7/2004 01:57:00	WI3L	EA4URE-5	LY4A	3772	QSX 3842
3/7/2004 00:20:00	N3KR	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7089.1	QSX 7249
3/6/2004 07:22:00	WB3BEL	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7074	qsx 7172
3/6/2004 13:44:00	N9LZ	EA4URE-5	LY4A	21438	 
3/6/2004 11:32:00	N3RXW	EA4URE-5	LY4A	14349	 
3/7/2004 23:30:00	K4IU	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7090	7229
3/7/2004 00:38:00	KF4YXH	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7089.1	QSX 7298
3/7/2004 23:03:00	KV2M	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7090	QSX 7165
3/7/2004 02:25:00	N2RK	EA4URE-5	LY4A	3772	QSX 3835
3/7/2004 05:36:00	N1US	EA4URE-5	LY4A	3760.3	3862
3/6/2004 06:33:00	WF2O	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7074	qsx 7182
3/7/2004 02:53:00	K4VUD	EA4URE-5	LY4A	3772	QSX 3855
3/7/2004 20:52:00	N2IXX	EA4URE-5	LY4A	14349.8	 
3/6/2004 13:38:00	N1HTS	EA4URE-5	LY4A	21438	 
3/7/2004 16:40:00	KB5REX	EA4URE-5	LY4A	21308.2	 
3/7/2004 20:58:00	N5DD	EA4URE-5	LY4A	14349.8	 
3/7/2004 03:13:00	W1JQ	EA4URE-5	LY4A	3772	QSX 3855
3/6/2004 13:51:00	KC8EVC	EA4URE-5	LY4A	21438	59++
3/7/2004 22:59:00	K9YC	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7090	QSX
719.5
3/7/2004 05:54:00	NA9Q	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7072	77213
3/6/2004 06:56:00	K1BD	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7074	qsx 7182
3/6/2004 15:18:00	K7AEK	EA4URE-5	LY4A	21438	 
3/7/2004 20:07:00	W4BDG	EA4URE-5	LY4A	14349.6	 
3/6/2004 07:57:00	WA8LXJ	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7033	qsx 7172
3/6/2004 12:55:00	W4MOT	EA4URE-5	LY4A	21438	 
3/7/2004 03:44:00	W0PV	EA4URE-5	LY4A	3772	QSX 3855
3/6/2004 13:10:00	N3KCJ	EA4URE-5	LY4A	21438	 
3/7/2004 23:40:00	NX9T	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7090	7229
3/7/2004 20:15:00	KC5LVC	EA4URE-5	LY4A	14349.6	 
3/7/2004 00:53:00	K4AMC	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7089.1	7298
3/7/2004 04:14:00	K2OWE	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7080	7212.5
3/6/2004 15:01:00	W4ISC	EA4URE-5	LY4A	21438	 
3/7/2004 22:06:00	WA2NDO	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7090	QSX 7212
3/7/2004 20:22:00	KA1YDH	EA4URE-5	LY4A	14349.6	 
3/6/2004 14:04:00	WA1MKE	EA4URE-5	LY4A	21438	 
3/7/2004 21:17:00	KD5SVT	EA4URE-5	LY4A	14349.6	 
3/7/2004 06:30:00	KF7IQ	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7072	qsx 7187
3/7/2004 23:12:00	KB3FJO	EA4URE-5	LY4A	7090	QSX 7229
another interesting array of stateside calls from ea4ure-5.  those ip
logs would probably be interesting also.

DTS			Spotter	FromNode	Dx	Freq	Comment
3/7/2004 13:32:00	AB5C	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14189.5	 
3/7/2004 11:34:00	K3PX	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14190	 
3/7/2004 21:50:00	KE3Z	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14270	 
3/6/2004 16:59:00	WA2TOE	K1TTT-14	HG3M	14288.8	 
3/7/2004 16:07:00	K3ED	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14189.9	 
3/6/2004 16:49:00	K2NUZ	K1TTT-14	HG3M	14288.5	 
3/6/2004 12:17:00	WB2ZNF	K1TTT-14	HG3M	14290.5	 
3/7/2004 15:57:00	W9IND	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14189.9	 
3/6/2004 20:52:00	W5TI	K1TTT-14	HG3M	14296.8	 
3/7/2004 20:15:00	VE1ZY	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14269	 
3/7/2004 21:07:00	VE3OCY	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14270	 
3/7/2004 14:23:00	AC1Z	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14189.6	 
3/7/2004 20:25:00	WA8APN	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14269.5	 
3/7/2004 18:54:00	W3KY	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14189.5	 
3/7/2004 15:36:00	WA3ACN	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14189.9	 
3/7/2004 15:16:00	VE1EG	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14189.7	 
3/7/2004 20:05:00	W2PC	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14268.8	 
3/7/2004 19:16:00	NA3T	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14189.7	 
3/6/2004 15:45:00	N4AYI	K1TTT-14	HG3M	14288.5	 
3/7/2004 17:12:00	VE3EOP	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14190.1	 
3/6/2004 14:41:00	VE3ONY	K1TTT-14	HG3M	14288.5	 
3/7/2004 19:49:00	K1EYI	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14189.1	 
3/7/2004 21:34:00	KA2ENT	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14270	 
3/7/2004 12:05:00	VE3MIN	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14190	 
3/6/2004 13:31:00	K3LU	K1TTT-14	HG3M	14289	 
3/7/2004 20:54:00	KB4C	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14269.5	 
3/7/2004 16:36:00	K2ANZ	HB9OK-6		HG3M	14189.9	 
another european node with lots of stateside and canadian spotters all
who only spotted hg3m.

DTS			Spotter	FromNode	Dx	Freq	Comment
3/7/2004 01:12:00	K0REF	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	14234	EA
3/6/2004 17:59:00	N1DS	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	21412	EA
3/6/2004 23:34:00	N2BJ	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	14234	EA
3/7/2004 01:24:00	W8FT	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	14234	EA
3/6/2004 23:49:00	K6CU	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	14234	EA
3/6/2004 10:22:00	W3PP	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	14261	Contest
EA
3/6/2004 19:36:00	KX2S	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	21281	EA
3/6/2004 18:15:00	W4KS	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	21412	EA
3/6/2004 09:36:00	K1RX	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	14261	 
3/6/2004 22:40:00	W3FI	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	14234	EA
3/6/2004 22:24:00	NS3T	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	14234	EA
3/6/2004 23:11:00	N6AA	K1TTT-14	EA1WS	14234	EA
all from dxsummit, most with same comment and all integer frequencies...
probably more later on the dxsummit spots.

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Details of dxsummit spots.  Note, dxsummit was down from about 5z sunday
morning, so there aren't as many spots from there as usual.  but there
were still some who had time to make good use of it:

zs6wpx spots:
EA4FRT-@:	CQ CONTEST		196.25.253.13
PA3ERF-@:	CQ CONTEST		196.25.253.13
I4MUH-@:	CQ CQ ARRL TEST	196.25.253.13
EA4BOQ-@:	CQ CQ TEST		196.25.253.13
CT1SDF-@:	CQ CONTEST		196.25.253.13
CT1SDF-@:	CQ CONTEST		196.25.253.13
XE1DFR-@:	BIG SIGNAL		196.25.253.13
XE1DFR-@:	BIG SIGNAL		196.25.253.13
EA3RD-@:	cq cq			196.25.253.13
K5LBU-@:	cq test		196.25.253.13
K5LBU-@:	cq test		196.25.253.13
196.25.253.13 = Telkom SA Ltd. SAIX 

ea1ws spots:
K1RX-@:				80.58.7.172
NE3F-@:	Contest		80.58.7.172
W3PP-@:	Contest     EA	80.58.7.172
K3BSA-@:	Contest     EA	80.58.7.172
K2TE-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
N1EU-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
N1AU-@:	Contest         EA80.58.7.172
W3PT-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
N1NB-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
K5SF-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
N1DS-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
W4KS-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
K0TO-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
N3RS-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
K2XF-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
VQ5A-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
KX2S-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
K3MD-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
N1DG-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
NS3T-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
W3FI-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
N6AA-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
NF0N-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
N2BJ-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
K6CU-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
K2XF-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
K0KX-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
K0REF-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
W8FT-@:	EA			80.58.7.172
80.58.7.172 = Telefonica de Espana SAU

hg3m spots:
K3LU-@:			81.182.10.108
VE3ONY-@:			81.182.10.108
N4AYI-@:			81.182.10.108
K2NUZ-@:			81.182.10.108
WA2TOE-@:			81.182.10.108
W8FUM-@:			81.182.10.108
HG3M-@:			81.182.10.116
WB2ZNF-@:			81.182.10.116
WB2ZNF-@:			81.182.10.116
W5TI-@:			81.182.10.13
81.182.10.* =  Hungarian Telecom


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undisguised self spots:
Dx	FromNode	Freq	Comment
EA7RCT	EA7URM-5	7090	qsx 7203
EA7RCT	EA7URM-5	14210.8	CQ TEST
EA7RCT	EA7URM-5	7050	QSX:7229
EA7RCT	EA7URM-5	14210.8	CQ TEST
EA7RCT	EA7URM-5	28480	 
ES1A		AB5K		14244.7	 
ES1A		AB5K		14335.9	ARRL
HB9CXZ	HB9OK-9	14248.8	need RI,KY,AR,NM,OK ....
HB9CXZ	HB9OK-9	1905	GOOD OPENING TO USA
HB9CXZ	HB9OK-9	7058	QSX 7242.5 NEED ND,NB,LAB
IK2VFR	IR2UBY-6	7046	QRX 7254
IK2VFR	IR2UBY-6	21340	arrl
IK2VFR	IR2UBY-6	14268	ARRL
IK2VFR	IR2UBY-6	14268	ARRL
IK2VFR	IR2UBY-6	7074	QRX 7210
IK2VFR	IR2UBY-6	7046	TEST LIST.7254
IK7YZI	I8NHJ-6	7046	qsx 7170
IZ5CML	ED7ZAB-5	21355	need NV only
JW5E		K1TTT-14	7032	lsn up 7254
NP4CQ		WP4F		14260	cq cq test
VK3SX		K1TTT-14	21274	looking for la ok ohio w
VK3SX		K1TTT-14	21315	Looking for la ok ohio w
W4ZV		K1TTT		1826.5	CQ UK8DAN or UK9AA
W4ZV		AB5K		1826.5	Any EU awake?
XV1X		N0VD-6		1811	up 1
XV1X		N0VD-6		21307	ARRL test
XV1X		N0VD-6		1811	up 1
XV1X		N0VD-6		21308	ARRL
XV1X		N0VD-6		1811	up 1 EU
XV1X		N0VD-6		21225	Beaming EU
XV1X		N0VD-6		21317	ARRL test
XV1X		N0VD-6		3777	ARRL test
XV1X		N0VD-6		7057	QSX: 7248 - ARRL test
XV1X		N0VD-6		1811	up 1 DL9YX not in log
XV1X		N0VD-6		7046	QSX: 7194
XV1X		N0VD-6		7057	QSX: 7162 ARRL test
XV1X		N0VD-6		7038	qsx: 7179
ZL2AL		ZL2AL-10	7046	QSX 174
ZL2AL		ZL2AL-10	3787	 

i hate to sound paranoid, but i am sure i have not made any friends by
publishing this data. So I probably shouldn't be surprised if more stuff
like the spots below show up in the future:

also found in undisguised self spot list:
Dx	FromNode	Freq
K1TTT	YV6BTF-7	21337	 

other spots from yv6btf-7 node during the contest were(note that besides
a couple test spots made by the sysop this was ALL the spots from that
node that made it to my node):
Dx	Freq		Comment	Spotter	DTS
KP4KE	14323.1	PUERTO RICO	LU4AA	3/7/2004 23:12:00
KP4KE	28422.9	 		K1TTT	3/7/2004 18:41:00
K1TTT	21337	 			K1TTT	3/7/2004 18:55:00
KP4KE	21368.5	PUERTO RICO	LU4AA	3/7/2004 22:43:00
KP4KE	14325.6	PUERTO RICO	LU4AA	3/7/2004 23:37:00
I have requested ip address info for these users from yv6btf, but i'm
not sure if the dxnet software records that information.  if anyone
knows him or that software could you help?

one other interesting spot that showed up was:
Dx	Freq	Spotter	FromNode	DTS
K1TTT	21300	KB2HBK	AA2MF		3/6/2004 13:57:00
this one was interesting for several reasons.  first, we were not on
that frequency at that time.  second the spotter has been identified in
the past as being a fake spotter call used to spot ny6dx.  third, ny6dx
was operating at aa2mf's station using nn2w(aa2mf's club call) over the
weekend.  i have requested but not yet received the ip address used by
kb2hbk and also KLTTT-13 who were seen on aa2mf's node.



David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 




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