[EIDXA] HKØNA DXpedition

[Joe Hetrick]

	My own skimmer isn't mis-spotting (locally, I only feed to the RBN; 
none of this LPL to the cluster business); though, what LPL's bogus 
spots appear to be are image spots; so he's spotting on either 
side/multiples of the center frequency of his SDR's center frequency. 
Mine will do this when it's misconfigured, or, if the I/Q balance isnt 
good and the software hasn't been running long enough to correct for it. 
  I do notice that it can happen on very loud stations.

	Most skimmer ops run using the SCP database so that they don't send 
silly spots, and they should only be sending spots that are sending 
CQ's.  You can turn all of that off though, and it's possible that they 
have.

	Regardless of what one thinks of his activity, he hasn't had this 
problem in the past to this extent, and it's been going on for at least 
a week and a half, so I'm a sort of puzzled why he'd let it continue 
given the ire he's already attracted in the first place.

	The PJ4 station was pretty good about identifying when I was listening 
the other evening, but, maybe the code readers are having difficulty, or 
more likely nobody is listening and just perpetuating a bogus spot.


	Did anyone hear/work JT5DX this morning on 40M?  He was *loud*.  10 and 
20 over at my QTH and he was relatively easy to work.  I stumbled across 
him and had to listen for 5 minutes because I couldn't believe what I 
was hearing.

VKN





On 01/15/2012 01:16 PM, ww0e at q.com wrote:
>   For the last couple of nights there have been many bogus HK Ø NA spots on the clusters.
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> While there is a limited operation by the advance crew, and thus some of thespots are valid, one or more ‘slims’ are apparently calling CQ using the HK Ø NA call. Because CW Skimmers pick these up and place them on clusters the ‘slims’ are apparently enjoying this new method of causing trouble. The offenders probably call CQ until they get spotted by a CW Skimmer, and then quit…perhaps to head to a different band to perform the same shenanigans. What can a user do to minimize this?
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> 1) Turn off skimmer spots.
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> 2) Block all spots posted by W3LPL.
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