Once more, F5MQW Pat wasn’t on AM-640.
He was on AM-641, with his nice CW and politeness, calling friends with their name, and a quick 73 “UFT” our CW club.
On AM-640, was a pirate sending with poor CW “599” and knowing nobody… !
641 is near Pat’s home, and 640 very far from there.
In reply to F6ENO:
Hi Alain
In North GM land I am very well placed for checking directions for signals (not very much QRL North of this QTH!).
For Spring and Summer I have put up my 12x beverage system, each spaced 30 degrees - the signals were for sure not from AM-640 QTH.
This is the second day we have pirate operation (OK/ZL-029 yesterday).
QRX for more information …
73 Cris
GM4FAM
In reply:
Answer from Pat F5MQW to my @-mail:
" je suis DESOLE mais il y a vraiment un IMBECILE qq part car je n’ai pas activé un 2ème SOTA.
bonne soirée mais je confirme le SOTA F/AM 641 Pilon Saint Clément. "
The keying and signal strength were the same for both OK2BDF/P and F5MQW/P. I therefore suspect it was the same op. However, he/she obviously has access to this Reflector and we must be careful what is said. With your bearing and a triangulation we might be able to narrow the station down. At least we are all on the watch now, but what a great pity. Nothing is sacred these days.
I don’t know if it is possible to send an alert via telephone, when we
have no Internet acces, but it would be a good idea to spotlite when starting climbing.
There we know approximately at what time we will start radio.
it would be a good idea to spotlite when starting climbing
I dont know if this works with this kind of pirates.
Back in 2006 I got a “slim” who just overtook my pile-up…
Some of the chasers may remember that.
It´s someone who knows exactly the way of SOTA-QSO´s
and the names of many chasers.
The best against “such” people is it to ignore them
and dont speak (write) about them on the reflectors.
Would it be a good idea to have a participant on this reflector to whome all the bearings could be sent privately for forwarding to the intruder watch people?
A good idea in principle Brian, but I was wondering if the recent press about Ofcom cuts in manpower means that any intruder policing is getting a low priority these days.
We can but try, Dave - and I suspect the recent culprits are outside Ofcom’s jurisdiction, anyway! This is a case for co-operation between SOTAeers in all countries and forwarding the information gained to the authorities of whichever country hosts the pests!