[CQ-Contest] ARRL Cheating in ARRL using the cluster

[Michael Adams]

Considering that I had over 1150 S&P Q's, being mis-spotted a few times
during a contest doesn't seem too bad to me.   There are a few folks who
would love to have that kind of accuracy coming out of log-checking.

Someone pointed out to me off-reflector that if I called a couple of times
after answering "{dx-station's call} TEST", a skimmer could have been
confused.

Looking again at the RBN archives, of those 30 spots, 24 were instances
where I was picked up by only one skimmer, and 3 were instances where I was
picked up by two skimmers.  Someone making good use of packet filters might
have missed most, or all, of those mis-spots.


-- 
*Michael D. Adams* (N1EN)
Poquonock, Connecticut | mda at n1en.org


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Andy V. Melanyin <ua3dpx at mail.ru> wrote:

> That means that skimers are real shit !!
> And to my appinion they must be swiched of during the contests !!
> 73! Andy UA3DPX/RM3F
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Adams" <mda at n1en.org>
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> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 11:59 PM
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Cheating in ARRL using the cluster
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>  On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:27 PM, <w5ov at w5ov.com> wrote:
>>
>>  A lot of this seems to be the Skimmer/RBN network reporting the station
>>> the runners are working.
>>>
>>> Probably not anyone cheating in the manner you describe.
>>>
>>> I found this a LOT. (Among all the other busted calls).
>>>
>>>
>>>  One datapoint to support this:  I just looked up my call at RBN.  It
>> appears that I was spotted 30 times this weekend.
>>
>> However, I was 100% S&P during the contest.   I did not call CQ at all
>> this
>> weekend.
>>
>> --
>> *Michael D. Adams* (N1EN)
>> Poquonock, Connecticut | mda at n1en.org
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