[TVARC] Strange Calls on FT8.

[John Ellis]

I've seen some strange decodes recently also,
but I wonder where the excitement is in pirating
an FT-8 station ❓

John, NP2B

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:38 PM Frank M <phrankxm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have had a few. Sometimes bad decodes can give some exciting moments!!
> Probably a combination of pirates and bad decoded.
>
> Frank KA1AF
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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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