I was running unassisted and I see that I spotted myself twice.
This is not good and the only reason is for someone to ensure that the
cluster logging can't be trusted.
================
Perhaps they were trying to sabotage you.
73,
Ken, AB1J
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walker <va3mw@portcredit.net>
To: Dave K2XR <k2xr@ptd.net>
Cc: cq-contest reflector <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Nov 1, 2021 6:46 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Spoofed Self spots
Wow, what a surprise. I just went and looked at my cluster and sure
enough.
I was running unassisted and I see that I spotted myself twice.
This is not good and the only reason is for someone to ensure that the
cluster logging can't be trusted.
Mike va3mw
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On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 1:39 PM Dave K2XR via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest@contesting.com> wrote:
> GM contesters. Hope you all are resting well.
>
> In the FRC chat room we have been discussing the abundance of apparent
> self spots during the contest. Many of our participants who run had
> their callsigns spoofed and spots of themselves made. It seems to have
> happened to enough of us that the question was posed... 'Was it just
> FRC that was targeted, or was it all contesters? "
>
> Looking on this reflector as well as the 3830 reflector, it didn't take
> long to see that it wasn't just FRC.
>
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/3830/2021-11/msg00174.html
>
> Curious to know who else out there was targeted. The were about 10
> cases in the chat room I was in this AM, and suspect it might have been
> a huge problem.
>
> Is there a way for the sysops to track down the origin ? I would
> think so, but am not positive.
>
> It would be great to nail the perpetrator, and some of us are demanding
> it if it is all possible. Kind of ruins everything for some.
>
> Dave K2XR Frankford Radio Club
>
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