[CQ-Contest] self spotting

[David Robbins K1TTT]

To see some of what is possible for tracing self spots go back to my
spotting reports after cqww cw and ssb last fall in the cq-contest archives.
Usually if someone is spotting themselves with fake calls there is a pretty
obvious pattern to them, and if the spots come from dxsummit or a node that
keeps logs of ip's they can be traced back to the country, usually the city
in the u.s., and sometimes closer, but usually not.  But a series of calls
that don't exist, or multiple calls spotting the same station from an ip
address in a different country, or a whole bunch of other circumstances make
it pretty obvious what is going on.  I didn't grab dxsummit data during the
160m contest, but I could still do a basic analysis if there were specific
instances that looked funny.


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
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of W0MU Mike Fatchett
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 13:40
> To: wn3vaw at verizon.net; 'CQ-Contest at Contesting.COM'
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] self spotting
> 
> Usually you can do a trace on the IP address and get a good idea of
> where the spotter is from.
> 
> Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
> > Not neccesarily.  Obviously the spotter wished to remain anonymous, but
> this
> > could mean it was someone who was hiding to protect their own "non-
> assisted"
> > entry.
> >
> > It's sad the lengths that some people are going to.
> >
> > 73
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> > [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Paul DeWitte K9OT
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:37 PM
> > To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] self spotting
> >
> >
> > With all of the feed back about phone arranged QSOs, a station that I am
> > familiar with only by call was spotted. I looked up the call of the
> spotter
> > out of curiosity, and the call of the spotter was not in the QRZ data
> base.
> > Self spotting?
> >
> > Paul
> >
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