[CQ-Contest] More on AA3B spotting issue

[Stan Zawrotny]

The spotting network security would need to be able to recognize spotters
that have been previously authenticated, otherwise, the extra effort needed
to do spotting will be too much for some. Spotting, for the most part, is
an activity that has no personal benefit, so there is a limit to how much
effort one is willing to make to do it. I spot to say thank you to the op
that I just worked, in addition to identifying where needed DX might be for
others.
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Stan, K4SBZ





On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 4:01 PM Chris Tate - N6WM <chris.tate at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Greetings all.  this is indeed an unfortunate situation.  I was the 15 band
> captain at K3EST at N6RO last weekend.  I have a few comments.
>
> there were a number of things going on.. the spots emanating from
> fictitious AA3B.  our solution to this was to filter spots from AA3B (Sorry
> bud :-)).  but more of these were coming in from additional calls, some
> harvested from the active operators list on the cluster.
>
> then there were the spots directed toward active "loud" stations,  using
> prefix games to falsely spot as a desired mult. for instance I was spotted
> as EK3EST several times.  Sadly the spotted actually came on the air, and
> stated "I just spotted your as EK3EST ha ha ha".   thats just sad man...
> sad.  Was this related?
>
> I think its time that we take a look at our spotting network security.  I
> know its gonna be tough, but think we need to have an authentication system
> so the spotter can not be anonymous and need to log into the network. you
> log into the spotting network with a proper user and password, so this kind
> of stuff is easier traced and accountable. --anyone else have thoughts on
> this?
>
> again overall this is a real dissapointing trend.
>
> Will be back in the 15m chair for the CQWW CW, hope not to have this kind
> of shenanigans going on for that!
>
> ~Chris N6WM
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