[CQ-Contest] cqww cw spotting report
David Rollitt
david at g3xyp.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Dec 4 09:45:39 EST 2008
I am amazed at the detail and content, its fascinating. It shows Big Bro is
watching you hi!!
73 David G3XYP
PS Kudos to the sysops on the cluster, amazing job throughout the weekend,
you guys get three cheers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "K1TTT" <K1TTT at ARRL.NET>
To: "reflector cq-contest" <CQ-Contest at Contesting.COM>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:46 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] cqww cw spotting report
>
>
> 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
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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????)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
>
>
>
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