[CQ-Contest] cqww cw spotting report
K1TTT
K1TTT at ARRL.NET
Wed Dec 3 19:46:51 EST 2008
A big weekend for cw spots. 52745 spots in the database this time.
The most spotted DX stations:
DX Count
3X5A 645
HC8N 570
D4C 457
CT9L 365
PJ2T 334
TO4X 322
KP2M 308
8Q7DV 301
KH7X 252
HD2M 232
JA5FDJ 221
EE2W 219
OX5AA 214
V47NT 211
TO3R 209
DF0HQ 207
The busiest spotters:
Spotter count
AD6WL 618
K3LR-3 558
KC1XX 527
K8CC 520
N2NS 508
K6III 508
NQ4I 483
VE1DX 408
K1TTT-7 408
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Cheerleader report
What the columns mean:
Spotter = the spotting station
dx = the dx being spotted
spots = the number of spots the spotter made for the dx
total = the total number of spots the spotter made during the contest
pct = percentage of the total spots the spotter made for just that one dx
station.
spotter dx Spots Total Pct
UA3TT RT3T 33 53 62
E74WN E77CFG 30 31 96
9A2D E77CFG 22 22 100
RK3TYA RT3T 16 17 94
UA4HBW TO3R 15 31 48
DL5DSM CT9L 15 18 83
UU2JQ 4L0A 13 113 11
ZP5VAY ZP0R 13 13 100
DF1LON CT9L 13 136 9
4L5A ZS4TX 13 37 35
FK8CP FK8CP 13 13 100 (qsx 1838 + sked
freq????)
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Single spotter report
"Single Spotters" are stations who make only one dx spot in the whole
contest weekend. It is obviously fairly unusual for a contest operator who
is active to make only one spot, many make 10's to 100's of spots during the
weekend. It is common for DX'ers to make a single spot for a rare dx
station then turn off the radio, so lots of single spotters for rare
stations is common, but they also get lots of contest spots from other
stations. The key here is the percentage of spots that are from 'single
spotters'. A high percentage can be a sign of the use of fake callsigns to
spot yourself or a friend that you don't want to look like you are
cheerleading for... in any case, the use of fake callsigns is an obvious
sign of someone trying to deceive the world in one way or another.
What the columns mean:
DX - the dx station being spotted
Total - the total spots for them in the weekend
All(%) - the total number of single spots and the percentage of the total
dxs(%) - the number of the total spots that came from dxsummit and the
percentage of the total they are. These are broken out because it is very
easy for someone to put in fake callsigns on dxsummit and it has been a
common source of abuse of the system.
DX Total All DXS
3X5A 645 36(5%) 8(1%)
T31DX 105 26(24%) 10(9%) (non-contest)
CY2ZT/2 39 23(58%) 23(58%)
UV2L 48 22(45%) 21(43%)
HC8N 570 20(3%) 4(0%)
J5UAP 76 18(23%) 3(3%) (non-contest)
HK1X 65 16(24%) 3(4%)
HD2M 232 15(6%) 10(4%)
OX5AA 214 14(6%) 3(1%)
5K0T 172 14(8%) 6(3%)
TO3R 209 13(6%) 6(2%)
KH7X 252 12(4%) 3(1%)
LZ9A 26 12(46%) 1(3%)
B4TB 69 12(17%) 11(15%)
D4C 457 12(2%) 3(0%)
VE2JCW 14 11(78%) 11(78%)
Ok, so as expected 3x5a who was very active got lots of spots, and out of
the 645 only 36 were from 'single spotters', this sets a good baseline to
start from. CY2ZT/2, uv2l, hk1x, lz9a sure attracted a lot of single
spotters. It is interesting that hk1x and lz9a got more from regular
clusters than from dxsummit, this is odd. B4TB and VE2jcw attracted some
dxsummit single spotters also.
Note below that I have cut short the dxsummit data, they have switched to a
new site and I need to rewrite some of my processing stuff to make pretty
extracts, so just the spotter call and ip address are shown, and only some
examples from each one.
Ones that deserve a closer look are analyzed more below:
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CY2ZT/2 - dxsummit
IP Address: 69.41.173.145
Spotters: k3nn, f0cus, ve5sd, w1ll, h1ha, cl3ar, ve3ggh, w4car, ve4jy,
w2vvo, nr2qq, kj8jj, k8uu, w5zi, k4aa, na7yy, aa3kk, n1ss,
k9ll, w8ii, k5vv, k5yy, w9uu, n2mm, f3jj, n2kk, aa8sz, k5vv,
n3zz, n6hh, ad4vv, k5vv, w5jj, aa3cc, k5vv, etc...
the pattern continues... all the same ip address, mostly with the same
last 2 letters. The first row with f0cus, w1ll, h1ha, cl3ar were near
the end of the contest, then they get earlier and earlier, so near the
middle of the contest there were more of the double letter calls. note
also that there are more spots than were flagged as single spotters, this
guy used k5vv a couple times, and i think repeated some others, and some
of his fake spots may have been real spotter calls that he duplicated.
The real odd part is that the ip comes back to:
OrgName: 1-800-HOSTING, Inc.
OrgID: 1800H
Address: 3535 Travis Street
Address: Suite 160
City: Dallas
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 75204
Country: US
or not really that odd I guess, someone has discovered a free demo of a web
anonymizer service. so either cy2zt/2 was making spots himself, a friend
was trying to help anonymously, or someone was trying to make trouble for
him.
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uv2l - dxsummit
IP Address: 81.23.24.111, 81.23.24.104, 81.23.24.121, 82.23.24.110
Spotters: 2e0drd, m0cop, aa1v, g3kkp, k2te, uv2l, ek3sa, rw9wa, ea5cw,
ua9tf, oy3je, f6dyx, pa3dbs, m0blf, rw2f, ua9ary, dl1et, dl8daz,
io4t, rw6yu, etc, etc,
Yes, you read it right, he did spot himself... probably got the fields
filled out backwards. that is a hazard of doing that on dxsummit.
This one is more obvious, the ip comes back to:
role: Kyivstar GSM
address: Degtyarevskaya, 53
address: Kiev, Ukraine
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hk1x - cluster
These were from a single cluster node:
OK1ER 200.6.184.196
K7OO 200.6.184.196
K8IU 200.6.170.228
JA2ERT 200.6.184.196
LY4R 200.6.184.196
OE4RT 200.6.184.196
K3ER 200.6.184.196
K9PL 200.6.184.196
K3LO 200.6.184.196
K9OI 200.6.184.196
JA2BBH 200.6.184.196
K8UY 200.6.184.196
which of course comes back to:
owner: COSTAVISION S.A.ownerid: CO-COSA20-LACNICresponsible:
Costavision S.Aaddress: Avenida Principal El Bosque, Diagonal, 21,
48-35address: BOLIVAR - Cartagena - BOcountry: CO
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lz9a - cluster
These were all from a single cluster node also, each of these users made a
spot for lz9a:
29Nov2008 at 06:29:58 SV2BFG connected from 82.137.72.32
29Nov2008 at 17:35:39 F6GNU connected from 82.137.72.32
29Nov2008 at 04:55:47 IK2GFD connected from 82.137.72.32
29Nov2008 at 08:37:41 YO2LGD connected from 82.137.72.32
29Nov2008 at 07:34:48 DL1SBR connected from 82.137.72.32
29Nov2008 at 00:31:05 ON8SL connected from 82.137.72.32
30Nov2008 at 17:34:12 5B4AIZ connected from 82.137.72.32
30Nov2008 at 16:50:15 LZ2XP connected from 82.137.72.32
30Nov2008 at 17:54:47 LZ3SM connected from 82.137.72.32
30Nov2008 at 05:58:47 PY2KD connected from 82.137.72.32
30Nov2008 at 14:36:50 ZL2UO connected from 82.137.72.32
And the ip comes back to:
organisation: ORG-RTCL1-RIPE
org-name: Radio Telecommunications Company Ltd. / Mobikom
org-type: LIR
address: 1 Jerysalem Street
address: 1784
address: Sofia
address: Bulgaria
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b4tb - dxsummit
IP Address: 222.191.211.20, 222.191.210.172
Spotters: wb6h, k5nv, on4awu, ua3wx, dl1dsm, sv1ukn, wb7y, jh7ucl,
oz4rl, kg4rpx, wb3i, ok1dtq, oe8agh, ik1gnh, ly6v, swl, etc.
and that of course comes back to:
netname: CHINANET-JS
descr: CHINANET jiangsu province network
descr: China Telecom
descr: A12,Xin-Jie-Kou-Wai Street
descr: Beijing 100088
country: CN
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ve2jcw - dxsummit
IP Address: 96.20.169.76
Spotters: w3fr, ve2mce, n8rr, f5tte, w3bbg, w4gb, k3tc, swl, w3mm,
kc7ujf, cu4gb, k6yr, wb6yhg, w9pou, n6tg
also, ve2jcw spotted ve2xaa/2, 9q1ek, from that ip
and the winner is:
OrgName: Le Groupe Videotron Ltee
OrgID: VLCA
Address: 300 Viger Est
City: Montreal
StateProv: QC
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A special thanks to the two cluster sysops who responded quickly to my
request for ip addresses from the suspect spots.
A text copy and the raw data for this report is at:
http://www.k1ttt.net/logs/2008cqwwcw_spots.zip
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
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