[CQ-Contest] Spoofed Self spots

[Michael Walker]

Wow, what a surprise.  I just went and looked at my cluster and sure
enough.

I was running unassisted and I see that I spotted myself twice.

This is not good and the only reason is for someone to ensure that the
cluster logging can't be trusted.

Mike va3mw


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On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 1:39 PM Dave K2XR via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> GM contesters.  Hope you all are resting well.
>
> In the FRC chat room we have been discussing the abundance of apparent
> self spots during the contest.  Many of our participants who run had
> their callsigns spoofed and spots of themselves made. It seems to have
> happened to enough of us that the question was posed...   'Was it just
> FRC that was targeted, or was it all contesters? "
>
> Looking on this reflector as well as the 3830 reflector, it didn't take
> long to see that it wasn't just FRC.
>
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2021-11/msg00174.html
>
> Curious to know who else out there was targeted.  The were about 10
> cases in the chat room I was in this AM, and suspect it might have been
> a huge problem.
>
> Is there a way for the sysops to track down the origin ?     I would
> think so, but am not positive.
>
> It would be great to nail the perpetrator, and some of us are demanding
> it if it is all possible.  Kind of ruins everything for some.
>
>      Dave   K2XR      Frankford Radio Club
>
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