[CQ-Contest] Spoofed Self spots

[Diego Dimunzio]

Happened to me as well, at least three times during the contest, question
is, who would be so dumm to spot himself using his own callsign? and even
worse just seconds after you got spotted.




*14194.90  LW5HR       31-Oct-2021 2316Z
 <W1TC>14194.90  LW5HR       31-Oct-2021 2321Z
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 <LW5HR>*

I was trying to find the spotters IP address but can't find a way to do it
so far.
My first guess what that it was a bug, but now, I am not so sure.

73
Diego - LW5HR


On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 7:58 PM AB1J via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

> 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.
> ================
>
> Perhaps they were trying to sabotage you.
>
> 73,
> Ken, AB1J
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Walker <va3mw at portcredit.net>
> To: Dave K2XR <k2xr at ptd.net>
> Cc: cq-contest reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Mon, Nov 1, 2021 6:46 pm
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Spoofed Self spots
>
> 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
>
>
> VA3MW-7>
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>   7214.9  VA3MW      31-Oct-2021 2252Z  LSB
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>   7215.0  VA3MW      31-Oct-2021 2249Z
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>   7215.0  VA3MW      31-Oct-2021 2237Z
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>   7215.1  VA3MW      31-Oct-2021 2211Z
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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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