[GCARC] Spurious emissions on FT-8

Christopher Wawak chris at wawak.org
Thu Jan 27 17:07:19 EST 2022


No one was using Vinnie’s call on 15m that was detected by PSKReporter. I
see almost all 80/40m usage for Vinnie for the past week, except a little
10m and 30m on 1/17.

Sounds like a busted call to me. I’d thank them and ignore the email.

Chris KC2IEB

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 4:58 PM Kenneth Bozarth <kwbozarth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Someone was using your call. There are many pirates in our community these
> days.
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 4:56 PM Vinnie Sallustio <Yankees_1996 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I got an email from a ham, along with a screen shot saying that I was
> > throwing off spurious emissions on 15M using FT-8.
> >
> > Here is the problem. I have not been on in days (Sunday). I was at work
> > all day. Rig is turned off, antenna disconnected and grounded. Emissions
> > were on 15M, a day band. I don't go there unless there is a new country.
> > I've been mostly on 80M chasing that last band that I need for 5BDXCC.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Vinnie N4NYY
> >
> > Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S20
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-- Chris


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