[UK-CONTEST] Skimmer mis-reporting

[GM3YEH]

Hi Stewart,

I only went on for a few hours on Sunday afternoon/evening of ARRL DX
CW and was operating 20m mainly.  At that time here in SW GM-land
virtually all signals heard were very rough and auroral sounding.
This effect was not steady but was changing from being very rough to
fairly clean within the period of a single CQ call.  Not sure if this
might have been giving some of the skimmers on RBN a hard time
decoding callsigns?

73 Barry GM3YEH.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Stewart Rolfe <gw0etf at btinternet.com>
> To: UK-Contest <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Cc:
> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:38:25 +0000 (GMT)
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Skimmer mis-reporting
> The following is from my 3830 report of ARRL DX this weekend..
>
> "Had quite a few repeat callers including from a couple of the big established
> US stations. I was also called occasionally by EU contesters thinking I was
> game; one mentioned me as NW6W so I decided to check the Reverse Beacon Network
> later and found several skimmers reporting me as NW6W..! Only about 50 spots in
> total but all from skimmers that didn't appear in the list for GW6W. If it was
> a case of a missing leading 'dit' I would be looking at my amp timing/qsk etc
> but dropping a dash is a little extreme and my call was always sent in 2s
> anyway."
>
> Has anyone else had this sort of thing happening? Incidentally I was using a K3 and Acom 1000 with QSK. Maybe next time I use GW6W I'll go assisted so I can keep an eye on the RBN..
> 73,
> Stewart, GW0ETF (GW6W)
> (If anybody was recording the contest it would be interesting to see if I was being picked up and what my signal was like....)