RE: [CQ-Contest] arrl dx cw spotting

["SM3CER (7S3A)" <jan-eric.rehn@telia.com>]

At 19:16 2004-02-23, David Robbins K1TTT wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here's a dumb question:
> > I searched the DX-Summit Spot Database and found this:
> >
> > Spotter    Freq   DX                     Time Date
> > K1TTT      1834.4 K1TTT                  2335 21 Feb 2004
> >
> > Someone using the call K1TTT as the spotter or self spotting???
> >
> > Just curious...
> >
> > 73 de Jan/SM3CER
>
> Must have been an operator error making a log entry and spot.  Here is
> what is in the log around that time...
>        DATE    TIME   NUMBER FREQ   CALL         RCVD    NEW MULTS   PTS
>     21-Feb-04  2240    101   1830  GM3UA        599 100       GM      3
>     21-Feb-04  2242    102   1830  OL1A         599 KW                3
>     21-Feb-04  2243    103   1830  G3MLO        559 400               3
>     21-Feb-04  2248    104   1826  HA8BE        599 K                 3
>     21-Feb-04  2259    105   1831  OE8CIQ       599 400               3
>     21-Feb-04  2300    106   1831  DL7CX        599 400               3
>     21-Feb-04  2301    107   1830  LY3UM        599 KW                3
>     21-Feb-04  2316    108   1839  UX5NQ        599 100       UR      3
>     21-Feb-04  2323    109   1834  K1TTT        599 KW                0
>     21-Feb-04  2338    110   1832  EI3IO        599 400               3
>
>     21-Feb-04  2347    111   1834  HB9BLQ       599 600       HB      3
>     21-Feb-04  2353    112   1834  G3LZQ        599 400               3
>     21-Feb-04  2356    113   1837  DL5CT        599 500               3
>     21-Feb-04  2357    114   1837  GM0F         599 400               3
>     21-Feb-04  2358    115   1837  DL8LAS       599 100               3
>     22-Feb-04  0002    116   1837  OE4PWW       599 100               3
>     22-Feb-04  0003    117   1837  G3NEO        599 100               3
>     22-Feb-04  0009    118   1841  HA0DU        599 500               3
>     22-Feb-04  0012    119   1833  G3XTT        599 400               3
>     22-Feb-04  0013    120   1833  G3HBR        599 300               3
>
> the operator must have deleted the call at 1834z by replacing it with
> k1ttt (ct doesn't let you delete, so this is common practice if you
> enter something accidentally)  then he must have tried to send a spot
> and if you haven't typed in a new call ct spots the last thing you
> logged on that station.  As you can see we aren't running on that
> frequency at the time.
>
>
> David Robbins K1TTT
> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
> web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net


Hello,

Thanks Dave!
It's quite clear it could have happened as you describe it...
As I wrote earlier - I was just curious.
On the other hand - I learned a new thing about CT - again... :-)

73 de Jan/SM3CER 

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