[Dxspider-support] Call Sign Validation Exceptions

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why would users actually need to log in with the special event call, can
> they not just log in with their normal call, it seems yet another thing
> to police for abuse ?
>
> For CEPT type calls such as EI/W1AN then Surely EI/W1AN just signs in as
> W1AN.

Why?  Because some software will reject DX spots if the numerical IP
address is from a different country than the spotter callsign.  For
example, if W1AN connected to the cluster from an IP address in
Ireland.

73 - Jim AD1C

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us