[TVARC] Strange Calls on FT8.

[Frank M]

I have had a few. Sometimes bad decodes can give some exciting moments!! Probably a combination of pirates and bad decoded. 

Frank KA1AF 

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> On Mar 7, 2019, at 4:34 PM, <k2te at juno.com> <k2te at juno.com> wrote:
> 
> I wonder if anyone has been called out of the blue by strange stations on
> FT8.  I've had recent calls from stations listing a grid square in the
> middle of the South Atlantic near ZD9.  Each station used what appears to
> be a legitimate callsign, signing "/R R".  However, a check in QRZ.com
> comes up with nothing.  One was a US call and the other was Viet Nam. 
> Today, I had a call on 30 meters from XX8AOX in grid square DM83 (NM/TX
> area) even though I had unsuccessfully called a station from Poland just
> once.  An XX9 prefix is Macao.  A legitimate station in the ocean should
> sign as /MM.
> 
> New pirates/bandits of the digital age?
> 
> 73 de Ed
> 
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