My first note raised questions about why my call (NS3T)
had been found as "spotting" YP3A during a recent contest.
It prompted a number of responses and led to some further
investigation, albeit on a very limited basis.
K1TTT ran the database of the spots from DX summit for
the two ARRL DX contests, focusing on spots that came
from "unique" calls - meaning that station only spotted one
DX station during the entire contest.
I quickly reviewed spot data for only three stations, simply
because they had come out on top of K1TTT's review:
PY2NDX, S53M and UA9YAB.
PY2NDX had over 40 spots during the ARRL SSB contest.
Three of the calls are not active.
W8GKL 21306.0 PY2NDX PY0035 02 Mar 2002
WB0YUI 21306.0 PY2NDX PY0051 02 Mar 2002
WB2GHJ 21408.6 PY2NDX PY2233 02 Mar 2002
What is interesting is that W8GKL and WB0YUI were the
first two spots for PY2NDX for the contest, both in the first hour.
and both from calls that are not active.
S53M is a different animal. I did not find any bad US calls,
but there were a number of spots from foreign DX during
the contest, including several with S5 calls. There were also
an inordinate number of spots by W3LPL.
UA9YAB raises many more questions. In the ARRL CW
contest, there were not that many spots:
N7UJZ 28092.9 UA9YAB arrl UA90144 16 Feb 2002
W6AGH 28093.9 UA9YAB UA90234 16 Feb 2002
WB0WQS 28093.0 UA9YAB UA90240 16 Feb 2002
N7HIY 28015.4 UA9YAB test UA90318 16 Feb 2002
W7WAS 28044.9 UA9YAB UA90331 16 Feb 2002
VA3DX 28081.1 UA9YAB UA91158 16 Feb 2002
WN9O 28062.5 UA9YAB UA91306 16 Feb 2002
N7HIY 28073.0 UA9YAB test UA90237 17 Feb 2002
W0ETC 28073.1 UA9YAB UA90239 17 Feb 2002
N8NR 28073.0 UA9YAB Zone 18 UA90300 17 Feb 2002
KK1S 28047.0 UA9YAB cq z18 UA91118 17 Feb 2002
K1NU 28152.4 UA9YAB UA91351 17 Feb 2002
Four of the calls had only one spot during the contest: the first two,
N7UJZ, W6AGH along with W7WAS and KK1S. All are active.
In the ARRL DX, UA9YAB had 13 unique spots.
N7UJX 28444.0 UA9YAB UA90123 02 Mar 2002
KC7WL 28505.0 UA9YAB UA90149 02 Mar 2002
W7YCB 28505.0 UA9YAB big signal ARRL z18 UA90248 02 Mar 2002
W6TGM 28505.0 UA9YAB big sigs from z18 Siberia UA90409 02 Mar 2002
KB1VC 28555.0 UA9YAB arrl UA91234 02 Mar 2002
W0WSX 28618.0 UA9YAB UA91314 02 Mar 2002
K1WSC 28625.0 UA9YAB UA91441 02 Mar 2002
K7ZNC 28515.0 UA9YAB UA90154 03 Mar 2002
K7YUH 28515.0 UA9YAB big signal from z18 UA90421 03 Mar 2002
W1MVZ 28465.0 UA9YAB UA91144 03 Mar 2002
W1TOS 28580.0 UA9YAB UA91236 03 Mar 2002
K5TCX 28580.0 UA9YAB cq test UA91249 03 Mar 2002
K5TXZ 28434.0 UA9YAB UA91336 03 Mar 2002
If you notice, the first two spots of both contests were uniques - and the
first call was almost identical, N7UJZ (CW) - N7UJX (SSB).
BUT..what raises more questions is that the following calls did not show
up when I checked the FCC database:
W7YCB, W6TGM, W0WSX, K1WSC, K7YUH, W1MUZ, W1TOS,
K5TCX, K5TXZ. None of those are listed as active.
Add to all that the following two spots by UA9YAB:
UA9YAB-@ 28555.8 UA9YAB cq for sked with vo2wl 1524 02 Mar 2002
UA9YAB 3788.0 UA9YAB cq arrl QSX3812.0 UA91207 03 Mar 2002
I invite more hams to check to see if their calls have "spotted" stations
during contests. VR2BG pointed out that somehow ZF2MM had
spots made by his own call K9PG. I checked, and there were
four of those. He didn't do that - but someone else did.
All of this information was gathered from the DX Summit database
search.
Jamie NS3T
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