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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">It is certainly true that there have been a huge number of spots this month for WWA stations. I don’t know how it works but it feels like every station that’s on gets spotted every few minutes.</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">I know we had an issue a couple of years ago when there was an event like this where most of the spots seemed to be coming from fake callsigns. I don’t know if this is similar or not as I’ve not looked into it enough to see.</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">Obviously it’s impossible to tell but the qrz page for n9sin doesn’t suggest that person is running a dxcluster node.</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size: medium">This is the site that’s behind it all and if you follow the Award list link from the top and look at the previous years, the number of award events is growing year by year and so therefore the traffic we’re seeing from it will increase as well. Someone’s making a good few quid from this as well, looking at the Pricing page.</span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><span style="font-size: medium"><br /></span><a href="https://hamaward.cloud/" target="_blank">https://hamaward.cloud/</a><span style="font-size: 16px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 16px"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 16px">73 Keith.</span></div>
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 25 Jan 2025 at 15:46 +0000, Luigi Carlotto IK5ZUK via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk>, wrote:<br />
<blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-color: grey; border-left-width: thin; border-left-style: solid; margin: 5px 5px;padding-left: 10px;">Hello all!<br />
<br />
Here I see a very big amount of spots generated by the node N9SIN-3 (IP<br />
174.24.78.204) that has into the comment field the hh.mm in order to<br />
avoid the dupe control.<br />
The strange that with the command "sh/c n9sin-3" it appear that N9SIN-3<br />
is not visible... Is a "fake" node?<br />
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I've marked that node as badnode and put also the IP into the local<br />
badip list.<br />
Dirk, may be possible to add that IP to the global badip list?<br />
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73 Luigi IK5ZUK<br />
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