[CQ-Contest] Summary: Disruption of Emergency Communication during CQWW SSB contest

[K1TTT]

You may have missed an earlier part of the discussion where an example of
some non-callsign looking spot was used to mark the emergency... say for
example instead of spotting the callsign of the net control you spotted
"EMERGENCY/NET".  Great, that would stand out on the bandmap, if it made it
that far.  However, if that spot was put in on dxsummit it would get
filtered out and not make it to the cluster network because it doesn't match
the pattern of a callsign.  It may also fail other filters if put in on the
cluster network... and if it made it through the callsign validity checks it
would likely get filtered out of many stateside bandmaps during dx contests
because it would look like a /NE prefix meaning stateside.  It may also not
mean much to non-english speaking/reading users in other parts of the world.


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: Jim Reisert AD1C [mailto:jjreisert at alum.mit.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 22:52
> To: cq contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Summary: Disruption of Emergency Communication
> during CQWW SSB contest
> 
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:34 PM, David Robbins <k1ttt at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > WARNING!
> >
> > <quote>
> > - Alarm messages in the DX Cluster Network
> > Very good idea! Can be implemented immediately for no cost, as such an
> alert can be initiated by any operator with internet access and it is
> supposedly effectively alerting at least all multi-op and assisted op
> participants in a contest.
> > </quote>
> >
> > No, it isn't that easy.  the one example i saw would not propagate to
> all users, it probably wouldn't even get to many nodes, and if put in on
> the wrong source wouldn't get to most of the active contesters on the
> cluster network.  To get past node and user filtering in an organized way
> it will take some testing and maybe the cooperation of all the world's
> sysops.
> 
> It's even harder than that.  Many contesters just have an announce or
> bandmap window up and are not even looking at the actual spots as they
> come through.  Thus any ANNouncements and/or DX spots comments would
> likely be ignored, and if someone spotted, say 9Y4ZC on 14300,
> everyone who needed the 9Y mult would jump there and start calling
> without listening first.
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C
> 
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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