[Dx-qsl] Bad spots on DX Cluster Spotting

[Tom]

Has anyone else noticed that there has been an increased number of 
bogus spots on the DX Cluster as of late?  What I mean about bogus 
spots are those spots -- like one yesterday for YJ spotting DX on 
140000 but really announcing a 6.7 earthquake near Vanuatu.

It appears to me that more and more DX stations cannot be satisfied 
with the use of the announce command but post their announcements as 
DX spots.  With the increase of this type of bogus postings the 
effectiveness of the Cluster for alerting will diminish.

With the notification abilities of VE7CC software, DX4WIN and other 
tracking packages these bogus spots further serve to set off the 
alarm of a DX station that really is not there. Actually, all it 
accomplishes is to alert everyone that another DX Cluster user does 
NOT understand the intent and appropriate commands of DX Cluster capabilities.

Just my opinion, I could be wrong.

73's N4NW




Tom Gregory,  N4NW
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