[CQ-Contest] cqww ssb spotting report

[Alberto Annesi]

Hi, 
i'm just come back home from Cape Verde and i'm very surprised to see that there are some "comments" about my operations and about who spotted me on the cluster network.

In a previous message of Rin JG1VGX (op.JE1ZWT) i can see that 148 spot in the cluster were for D44TD.

Well! I can tell to the community that i wasn't alone in Cape Verde. Together with me, a friend of mine Andrea IV3SKB (IU3X), helped me before the contest for a hard work with towers, antennas and rotors and he worked before the contest on RTTY and CW on WARC bands.
During the contest i operated from one of the apartament in the house of Xara CT1EKF/D44TD.
>From time to time my friend Andrea came in my station to ask me if i needed something about drink of food (i operated for 44 hours). I real didn't know if he spotted me through the internet connection that Xara CT1EKF/D44TD has in HIS apartament but i think that he spotted me like David K1TTT wrote in his comment.

Right now i can confirm (after that i've just phoned to Andrea IV3SKB to know what he did) that he spotted me a few times but i really think that it wasn't necessary because other stations spotted me 142 times during the contest (like  JG1VGX  reported) and because i made about 4700 qso thank to the great location of Cape Verde and also my antennas set up that covered the world in RX and TX in three different directions simoultaneously.

Best 73 to all.

IV3TAN
Alberto





D44TD was SOSB 14 MHz by IV3TAN,
however it still looks interesting.

Jim SM2EKM
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David Robbins K1TTT wrote:

>>Interesting that the clusters have stopped providing IP data... Hmmm.
> 
> Any
> 
>>conspiracy theorists out there?
>>
> 
> it is not 'the clusters' who have stopped providing data, just dxsummit.
> Below is some data I looked up on a tip from someone who noticed
> something odd:
> 
> Spots for d44td
> 
> spot lookup from a spotter
> Freq Spotter FromNode
> 14205.7 IV3HAX N7OD
> 14217.3 IV3HAX N7OD
> 14210 IV3HAX S50DXS
>  
> On node n7od:
> 10/31/2004 19:20Z  Logging out user IV3HAX (tel22:195.8.13.128)
> 10/31/2004 19:04Z  Logging in user IV3HAX (tel22:195.8.13.128)
> 10/31/2004 19:02Z  Logging out user IV3HAX (tel22:195.8.13.128)
> 10/31/2004 18:47Z  Logging in user IV3HAX (tel22:195.8.13.128)
> 10/31/2004 03:01Z  Logging out user IV3HAX (tel4:195.8.13.210)
> 10/31/2004 01:35Z  Logging in user IV3HAX (tel4:195.8.13.210)
> 
> and that ip comes back to:
> address:      Cabo Verde Telecom
> address:      Largo do Desastre da Assist=EAncia
> address:      CP 220 - Praia - Santiago
> address:      Cabo Verde
> 
> Iu3x also spotted d44td from n7od 6 times, here is one time period:
> 10/31/2004 05:09Z  Logging in user IU3X (tel1:195.8.13.96)
> 10/31/2004 05:09Z  Logging out user IU3X (tel4:195.8.13.96)
> and this is from the same isp from cape verde.
> 
> I don't see any big volume of spots that look suspect, but those two
> guys apparently did something without trying to hide it, except for
> using their home call.  Now if they were operators at d44td that would
> be interesting.
> 
> 
> 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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