[CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest] Busted Reversed Beacon Network spots

[brian coyne]

Mid Sunday evening I too was victim of a bad 'spot'.

Because
 it was so hard to get runs going this weekend it was more obvious than 
usual whenever a spot had been posted somewhere. I work 'unassisted' so 
wouldn't know the origin of the 'spot' but on that occasion there was a 
sudden flurry of big guns whom I had already worked. 

My policy 
is to work dupes, after all it could have been my own error that caused 
the first bust, and further, it is quicker overall to work them than 
argue the toss. The callers really have no excuse though because I 
identify after just about every qso, especially in a slow event as we 
had this weekend.

After several of these dupes though I did call a
 halt and state qso b4, until then dupes had been well below 1% and this
 was getting silly. I do wonder how long those spots are stored in 
different places as around 30 minutes later I had a weak usa stn who 
obviously wasn't hearing me too well ask me to confirm my call was C4G 
which I presume was the bad spot.,

73  Brian   C4Z / 5B4AIZ


________________________________
 From: "Marijan Miletic, S56A" <s56a at bit.si>
To: cq-contest at contesting.com 
Sent: Monday, 27 May 2013, 21:03
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest] Busted Reversed Beacon Network spots
 

Steef, PA3S wrote: It is with great pleasure that this weekend make me
realize that the RBN is now way near a humane operator.  Let alone a good
operator.



I noticed bad spot of PA33A and I just checked RBN stats.  Last 100 correct
spots are all around 14015 kHz within one hour.  Even your best friends
wouldn't achieve better promotion of your unique callsign.



I spent 36 hours on RBN carefully watching for errors after long debate with
ex-VR2BG.  Wrong spots were just derivates of proper callsigns and I was
mentioned once as S56AE.  I was bit upset only once toward the end of
contest when ours S50ARX spoted weak F5KEQ on 20 m with N5 preffix required
for mults J



Thanks to RBN I easily worked YJ0PO on 3 bands, P29NO and a lot of juicy SA
mults.  No KL7 and KH6 from USA spots.  Only ordinary EU come back to my low
power CQ in poor condx.  There seemed to be something wrong with RBN on
Sunday evening.  Overload?



LP MMM S56A





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