Hello all!! I need to use this reflector to ask all sota funs, to stop spot highest sota mountain in E7 as test spot. All you, for tests, plese use local sota summits. Thanks!!
In reply to E73DU:
In two years of chasing I have worked every association in Europe for the Mountain Hunter Award with the exception of E7.
Is there any chance of some activity from E7 to rectify the situation or is SOTA dead in E7 ???
73 de Ken G3XQE
In reply to G3XQE:
In reply to E73DU:
OK, as e7 sota manager and ham radio in e7 I expected to make few activations on summits near me, so, follow spots and alerts OM!
In reply to E73DU:
I approached one of the “spotters” in a personal e-mail, asking him to remove the spot after testing his application. He kindly followed up and removed the spot.
In reply to PB2T:
Interesting is that all spotters use same call, e71dx and same summit, e7/bo-001, and ok, I allert last spotter about testing, and spots, and will wait for respond, thank you!!
In reply to PB2T:
Some new infos about that false spots with same calllsign and summit is: Application for spotting as test spots, empty I think, send spot with e71dx callsign, and e7/bo-001 summit.Waiting for infos about application.
I guess it is perfectly natural for people to want to test the spotting system using the various methods available - SOTAwatch, SMS, RucksackRadioTool and others. But people should only really use their own callsigns when doing so - and, importantly, remember to delete the spot as soon as it has appeared and confirmed your system is working.
Tom M1EYP
In reply to M1EYP:
and, importantly, remember to delete the
spot as soon as it has appeared and confirmed your system is working.
…not possible if you use SMS etc as the system does not recognise it as being posted by you.
The culprit is revealed and, apparently, unabashed. Hopefully the offending “spots” for 14.060 SSB will be removed swiftly …
73 de Les, G3VQO
In reply to G3VQO:
If you mean Ioan, I don’t see how it can be him Les as he is up on Fan Brycheiniog activating. Someone must have hacked his account, assuming of course he has one under that callsign, or the system itself might have been hacked.
73, Gerald G4OIG
In reply to G3VQO:
I have been watching these spots for several weeks now from a plethora of different call signs.
I would suggest that they are generated automatically by one of those smart phone applications.
As someone needing two summits to qualify E7 in Mountain Hunter and having prodded the association manager, I am worried that I might ignore a genuine post for Bosnian activation.
73 de Ken G3XQE
In reply to G4OIG:
Odd. Times I’ve noticed them, the spots seem to come in pairs, always for E71DX on E7/BO-001 using 14.060, sometimes SSB, sometimes CW. Seen them apparently from at least 4 different callsigns now. Improbable that four different individuals would choose the same weird test data. Wonder whether there’s a dodgy app out there that has those as defaults and erroneously spits out a pair of spots in certain circumstances?
In reply to G3XQE:
I have to agree with the phone app diagnosis. These spots by 2W0NNN are coming through the Spotlite interface to SOTAwatch and not SOTAwatch directly.
Normally apps are quite bold and identify themselves and this isn’t. Perhaps 2W0NNN (name?) would like to tell us what he was using?
Andy
MM0FMF
In reply to MM0FMF:
Ioan 2W0NNN hasn’t self-spotted today Andy so I rather suspect that it has nothing whatsoever to do with him. Is there any way of tracing the source through Spotlite? Must admit that since the RBN link, your text spot service and the Rucksack app all appeared, I haven’t even thought about using Spotlite. I did use it in the pre-Android days, but now it’s obsolete as far as I am concerned.
73, Gerald G4OIG
In reply to MM0FMF:
Hi Andy;
I have just looked to see if Ioan has self spotted today, (normally he doesn’t) and I could not find any.
I did see one spot entered by 2E0XYL, for Ioan,s 40m cw activity, is she taking up HF cw or do we have a pirate about ???
73 de Ken
In reply to MM0FMF:
Normally apps are quite bold and identify themselves and this isn’t.
Perhaps 2W0NNN (name?) would like to tell us what he was using?
There are a couple of other spot still visible that look like they’ve been injected in the same manner:
Tue 18:09 E71DX on E7/BO-001 (Posted by KF7SEY ) 14.060 SSB
Tue 18:07 E71DX on E7/BO-001 (Posted by KF7SEY ) 14.060 CW
though their comments say “test test ignore" rather than just "”.
Earlier in the week (but outside the 72-hour window of visible spots now) there were a couple of other pairs of spots that looked much the same, but posted by other callsigns. How reliable is that “posted by” callsign, though?
73, Rick M0LEP
In reply to G3XQE:
What about this then?
“Fri 13:52 E71DX +1] on E7/BO-001 - [edit] (Posted by 2W0NNN) 14.060 SSB”
Can anyone see a pattern yet?
Tue 18:09 E71DX on E7/BO-001 - [edit] (Posted by KF7SEY ) 14.060 SSB
Tue 18:07 E71DX on E7/BO-001 - [edit] (Posted by KF7SEY ) 14.060 CW
Sat 22:59 E71DX on E7/BO-001 - [edit] (Posted by VK3MRG) 14.060 SSB
Sat 12:15 E71DX +1] on E7/BO-001 - [edit] (Posted by EB4AHR) 14.060 FM
Wed 18:01 E71DX +1] on E7/BO-001 - [edit] (Posted by NO7ON) 14.060 SSB
Some kind of spotting app with poor defaults.
Andy
MM0FMF
In reply to G3XQE:
Ioan was up on Fan Brycheiniog with Neil 2E0TDX, hence the link to Karen 2E0XYL. Nothing suspicious there Ken as far as I can see. Whoever it is must have SOTAwatch up in front of them as how else would they pick up on Ioan’s callsign?
73, Gerald G4OIG
In reply to M0LEP:
Earlier in the week (but outside the 72-hour window of visible spots now)…
By altering the number at the end of the web address on your browser you can go back a long way. The system is not limited to 72 hours Rick.
73, Gerald G4OIG
In reply to MM0FMF:
If that “Posted by” information is reliable then you’ve certainly got a growing list of folks who might be using this dodgy app…