TM84REF confusions F/CR-245

Hi all,

Currently, for the IARU’s 100th anniversary, France is participating, and each department has its own call. I’m in Vaucluse department #84, so for this event, I used TM84REF. I had set an alert for F/CR-245 that stated, “Watch my spots, they will indicate SOTA CQ.”

As you can see on SOTLAS, the activation log started at 08:55z and ended at 11:18z.

So the QSOs you made outside of this period are not SOTA.

I ask you to check and remove any errors. These QSOs are also valid for a diploma see here https://tm100ref.r-e-f.org/

Roger @EA3ISA the QSO at 08:28 from your EA3/TA-050 was not an S2S sorry, please correct your log.

I would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused.

73, Éric F5JKK

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Bummer, I used 100 mW for that QSO.

Multiple stations with the same callsign on-air simultaneously and/or mistakenly spotted by RBNhole are becoming a common occurrence, especially with TM prefixes.

Ask the “activator” to confirm the SOTA ref. If they say “not SOTA” you know or they will give you the ref and you will know.

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I did for TM06REF, because there were two SOTA activations on-air on CW for that callsigns. From now on I will do for every TM station.

Probably wise for not just TM stations but whenever there is a special call in use unless you are sure there is only one station using the call. A similar problem happened with a recent UK GBxxxx call being used by many stations and only a few of the QSOs were good for SOTA.

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Hello all, with TM06REF in between 6.000 QSO we had only a few error (1 or 2). When there are 2 or more station on differents summits, the Alert must be TM06REF on F/AM-xxx. Doing this, each operator must give the good reference during his activation.
IU1UKS has done 7 QSO with TM06REF on F/AM-377 F/AM-617 F/AM-784 F/AM-339 F/AM-541 F/AM-453 F/AM-333
I have all logs to help if needed.
Gerald F6HBI

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It was a very nice day with a bonus, the initiation of a new call sign Mathieu F4LMM that some of you contacted in SSB…for a valid SOTA

If my apologies aren’t enough I’m going to stop and do POTA or Garden On The Air :wave:

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Not in the log at the indicated time :


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73

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A bottle of red wine is missing in the picture :grin:

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