[EIDXA] HKØNA DXpedition

[kesselring73 at gmail.com]

Hi Joe... I worked the JT5DX on 40 tonight ...Sunday at 23:15Z.  He was 
going by numbers and wasn't first
in but it wasn't too difficult.  Steppir with only trombone single element 
for 40mtrs.  Power at about 600-700 watts.
I hope all these HK0NA contacts count.  I have 40mtrs, 20mtrs and 12mtrs 
Q's.  No RTTY yet. That's where I
really need them.

Hope to make the meeting but Feb 3rd is XYL's birthday so not sure at this 
time.

BTW....which island did you do in the PJ's?  Where did you stay? Hotel or 
private house?

73
Glen  K0JGH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Hetrick" <jhetrick at bitjanitor.net>
To: <eidxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [EIDXA] HKØNA DXpedition


> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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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