Greetings all. this is indeed an unfortunate situation. I was the 15 band
captain at K3EST@N6RO last weekend. I have a few comments.
there were a number of things going on.. the spots emanating from
fictitious AA3B. our solution to this was to filter spots from AA3B (Sorry
bud :-)). but more of these were coming in from additional calls, some
harvested from the active operators list on the cluster.
then there were the spots directed toward active "loud" stations, using
prefix games to falsely spot as a desired mult. for instance I was spotted
as EK3EST several times. Sadly the spotted actually came on the air, and
stated "I just spotted your as EK3EST ha ha ha". thats just sad man...
sad. Was this related?
I think its time that we take a look at our spotting network security. I
know its gonna be tough, but think we need to have an authentication system
so the spotter can not be anonymous and need to log into the network. you
log into the spotting network with a proper user and password, so this kind
of stuff is easier traced and accountable. --anyone else have thoughts on
this?
again overall this is a real dissapointing trend.
Will be back in the 15m chair for the CQWW CW, hope not to have this kind
of shenanigans going on for that!
~Chris N6WM
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