[Dxspider-support] Ending ham.cm flooding

[Dirk Koopman]

Sadly, they are coming from an IP address that is connected to many node 
using callsigns that are not his. The spots look genuine, but are not 
being sent by the owners of those callsigns.

He has some considerable form doing this + more overt mischief, 
especially in contests. But not for much longer ...

73 de Dirk G1TLH

On 09/01/2023 17:19, Keith Maton via Dxspider-support wrote:
> Perhaps I’m being naive but although there are a lot of spots for these WRTC award stations, they do appear to be genuine.  They’re coming from award chasers who all seem to be using the same web site to log their QSOs which then sends out a spot.
>
> Just because stations are being spotted a lot, why should we remove them?
>
> I initially looked at these spots with a view to stopping them but the more I thought about it, I decided I didn’t think it was a good idea.
>
> There are lots of spots posted for dxpeditions, especially busy ones.  We wouldn’t consider removing or blocking those, why would we look at blocking these award station spots?
>
> In fact, yesterday, I used the spots to work a dozen or so of the WRTC stations.  Some of them have big pileups so it was fun breaking them.
>
> 73 Keith G6NHU
>
>
>
>> On 9 Jan 2023, at 16:42, Jim Reisert AD1C via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I guess that finally explains why all the spots tell me to check out
>> ham.cm/wrtc2, which takes me to the home page of ham.cm, rather than
>> the WRTC page.  I did not realize that the URL was being truncated
>> along the way.
>>
>> -- 
>> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, https://ad1c.us
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