[ADXA] Odd Experience Last Night

[Rory Bowers]

Well Said George!
HNY OM,
Rory, K5CKS

On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 12:27 PM WB5JJJ <wb5jjj at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've seen this happen several times when a REAL, rare DXer is on the air.
> Someone will go into Fox mode to entice those calling the DX station to
> respond to them instead.  Just a ploy to make contacts.  The main reason, I
> surmise, for a "local" to run Fox is because he/she knows that the DX
> chasers are not running normal FT8 and their responses will not work
> properly.  While others will just call folks using normal FT8 probably
> because they don't know what's going on and hopefully no one will answer
> their directed call.  Maybe they don't realize why everybody is calling the
> same station and figured they would get some easy contacts.  It don't' work
> that way.  I won't ever answer them.
>
> The best thing is to just ignore them and let them call all they want.
> Eventually, they just might get the idea that their mode of operation is
> not acceptable.  And if you are really wanting to fight with them, see if
> they use the JTAlert F5 message system.  If so, flame them there, it's
> private.  Or just send them an email if they have an addy on QRZ.com too.
>
> As long as they are not transmitting on the real Fox's frequency and time
> slot, I just let them pollute the airwaves.  Everybody knows who they
> appear to be and will just hopefully continue to ignore them.
>
> 73's
> George - WB5JJJ
>
>
> 4
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 12:13 PM Scott Branyan <sbranyan at cox.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi, John.
>>
>> It could be an acknowledged flaw in the Auto Sequencing that allows "QSO
>> Hijacking." See the WSTJ-X tips and tricks.
>> See https://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/FT8_Operating_Tips.pdf
>>
>> Caller might have been trying to contact you because he "needed you," and
>> the sequencing switched callers on you. I believe I've had that happen to
>> me before and also have seen it happening from my call to a DX station
>> coming back to me instead of the caller he was in QSO with. Agast!
>>
>> If it's consistently happening with other callers, it may be a pirate
>> that figured out how to skirt the system and throw confusion among the
>> ranks. A use can set any callsign as theirs in the settings.
>>
>> Just my opinion based on what I've seen, but see what others have to say.
>>
>> 73 es Happy New Year,
>>
>> Scott/W5AAJ
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>> On Behalf Of John McKinnie
>> Sent: Saturday, January 1, 2022 11:44 AM
>> To: ADXA List
>> Cc: John McKinnie
>> Subject: [ADXA] Odd Experience Last Night
>>
>> Last night I had something happen that I haven’t seen before.  I was
>> trying to work SV2RSG/A on 40 meters.  He was in F/H mode.  I got a
>> response in F/H mode but it wasn’t from SV2.  It was a stateside station
>> running F/H mode and it wasn’t a special event station or anything like
>> that.
>>
>> Was chatting with George WB5JJJ as we were both trying to work Mt Athos.
>> It was a bit confusing and George helped me figure out what was happening.
>> Thank you George. I would imagine that there are quite a few stations that
>> were going to be pretty upset with that US station.
>>
>> Anyone else ever have that happen?
>>
>> HNY everyone!
>>
>> John
>> KT4AC
>>
>>
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