[Dxspider-support] Skimmer spots sent as PC61 messages

[Rudy Bakalov]

For those of you that are logging all traffic, could I ask you for a favor; do you see spots from JHN7CSU-1 like the ones in yellow:

DX de JH7CSU-1-#:14052.0  JA1SJR       CW  3 dB 17 WPM CQ        QM05 0205Z PM95DX de JH7CSU-1-#: 7003.5  JE7XXE/7     CW 15 dB 21 WPM CQ             0206Z PM95
They may look OK, but in fact are manipulated. I have a pre-processor that strips all incoming RBN and other skimmer traffic from SSID numbers and converts every spotter into a baseline call. That is, all skimmer spots coming in and going out of N2WQ-1 should not have any SSID. My concern is that the JH7CSU-1 spots came via PC61. I raised a similar concern yesterday regarding spots distributed by GB7VAX.
If someone is converting skimmer spots into regular spots the consequences are scary. In the last 24 hours alone, during a high Aurora activity, N2WQ-1 distributed 4.7M skimmer spots (CW, RTTY, and FT); imagine what will happen if the spots were converted into human-generated spots and pushed via PC61.
Rudy N2WQ
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