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


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On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 12:13 PM Scott Branyan <sbranyan@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@mailman.qth.net [mailto:adxa-bounces@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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