[CQ-Contest] FW: Spots

[David Robbins K1TTT]

Oops, sent that as html which may not make it
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Sometimes I even take requests
 a bcc back to the original requester, but
this one seemed interesting enough for the reflector also:
 
> If you have some extra time, can you please have a look at the spots sent
> in the 3 last hours of the contest, attracting most multi-op and
> assisted stations
> on 7014 kHz (Eu CW band !) where VR2C was running stations with a very
> nice
> signal here in western Europe.    Many fake double mults showed up on the
> screens : SU, JT1KAA, HS0AC, ...   I can imagine the spotter's callsigns
> were
> also dummy ones but it would be interesting to see where the real spotters
> are from.
 
There was this interesting grouping from one node:
 
Dx		Freq		Spotter FromNode	DTS
VK6LC		7014	 	SV1PL	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 22:42:00
VY2ZM		7021.5 	M3VQZ	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 22:34:00
5Z4/RW1AU	7012		DJ8QP	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 22:30:00
C6ABB		7020	 	DJ8QP	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 22:28:00
HK3JJH	7020	 	DJ8QP	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 22:25:00
JT1VP		7025	 	DJ8QP	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 22:24:00
VK6LC		7014	 	PA7TW	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 22:15:00
VK6LC		7012	 	PA7TW	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 22:12:00
5Z4/RW1AU	7014.1 	PA7TW	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 22:08:00
TF8GH		7014	 	LY4T	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 21:41:00
SU1HL		7014	 	DJ8QP	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 21:35:00
HS0AC		7013.9 	DJ8QP	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 21:28:00
AH0BT		7014.2	UT1UW	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 21:17:00
JT1KAA	7014		I7XYZ	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 21:12:00
VU4AN		7014.1	F5TRD	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 21:08:00
JT1KAA	7014		TM9R	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 21:06:00
JT1KAA	7014.1	RZ9YL	IT9OBK-6	10/26/2008 21:01:00

>From it9obk-6 node:
26Oct2008 at 22:42:37 SV1PL connected from 212.79.182.248
26Oct2008 at 21:27:58 DJ8QP connected from 212.79.182.248
26Oct2008 at 22:07:17 PA7TW connected from 212.79.182.248
26Oct2008 at 21:40:35 LY4T connected from 212.79.182.248
26Oct2008 at 21:04:34 TM9R connected from 212.79.182.248

that’s probably enough
  that node is apparently lightly used but seems
quick so could be used to connect send fake spots and disconnect quickly.  
 
The spots all seemed to be on top of the vr2c who was on top of vu4an who
was on cw, maybe this was payback by creating bogus contest spots on top of
them?  There were some correcting comments, and one about some joker making
fake qso’s on that frequency.  So maybe there was also a slim in there
causing qrm.
 
The ip comes back to:
organisation:   ORG-tA13-RIPE
org-name:       tops.net
org-type:       LIR
address:        tops.net GmbH u. Co KG
                Holtorferstr. 35
                D-53229 Bonn
                Germany
 
 
 
David Robbins K1TTT
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