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K3NRX

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4S7JL is NOT IN SRI LANKA!!!!
« on: December 16, 2022, 05:15:29 AM »

HE IS MARATIME MOBLE and is 9 times out of 10, is transmitting from his work on the high seas...I'm figuring that this is note worthy because in this day and age, no one pays attention nor do they LISTEN..... :(.....but when I was reading the mail last night on 40 meters and Jaliya was working the pile up, at least one operator came back and replied "thanks for the new one"..... ::)......that and the number of clueless spotters on cluster posting "Sri Lanka....Booming!"....also prompted this topic.....Be advised.....you may think you are working a new country, but you are not.....LISTEN, LISTEN, AND LISTEN SOME MORE.....just say'n....

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Re: 4S7JL is NOT IN SRI LANKA!!!!
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2022, 05:21:25 AM »

Vince,

Is he identifying as /MM? Just curious.

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Re: 4S7JL is NOT IN SRI LANKA!!!!
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2022, 05:40:27 AM »

Vince,

Is he identifying as /MM? Just curious.

73 Frank W3PX

Yes, for the most part. Maybe it would help if he gave his exact location, which I only recall him mentioning once (somewhere in the North Atlantic).....

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Re: 4S7JL is NOT IN SRI LANKA!!!!
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2022, 08:07:50 AM »

Last time this came up I mentioned that he signs /MM and gives his grid if you ask him.

 Last week he was between North East Brazil and French Guiana.
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N4KZ

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Re: 4S7JL is NOT IN SRI LANKA!!!!
« Reply #4 on: December 16, 2022, 09:41:50 AM »

I have copied this fellow on 40 and he signs maritime mobile but few seem to copy it.

I recall a similar situation 25 years ago with a European ham operating portable W9 from Wisconsin on 75m SSB. The pile-up was huge. I kept wondering why so many were so eager to work Milwaukee on 75.

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Re: 4S7JL is NOT IN SRI LANKA!!!!
« Reply #5 on: December 16, 2022, 10:02:54 AM »

HE IS MARATIME MOBLE and is 9 times out of 10, is transmitting from his work on the high seas...I'm figuring that this is note worthy because in this day and age, no one pays attention nor do they LISTEN..... :(.....but when I was reading the mail last night on 40 meters and Jaliya was working the pile up, at least one operator came back and replied "thanks for the new one"..... ::)......that and the number of clueless spotters on cluster posting "Sri Lanka....Booming!"....also prompted this topic.....Be advised.....you may think you are working a new country, but you are not.....LISTEN, LISTEN, AND LISTEN SOME MORE.....just say'n....

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I heard and contacted him on 8th Oct on 20M SSB.
Exact same story as yours Vince. People listing him as Sri Lanka and a huge pile up occurring.  I had to laugh because even before I knew he was MM I knew instantly that no station from Sri Lanka at that time of night and with these band conditions could be pushing a solid 59 to me.

Another Laughable one was last week with PX2A who people kept listing as P2XA and saying thanks for Papua New Guinea   :-X
The OP had to keep stressing that he was not P2.

I think to much FT8 has made operators no longer aware of what is possible versus what is just most likely wishful thinking.
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Re: 4S7JL is NOT IN SRI LANKA!!!!
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2022, 07:43:19 PM »

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I think to much FT8 has made operators no longer aware of what is possible versus what is just most likely wishful thinking.

Nah.  I've been reading the DX Marathon "helpful hints" page since about 2014, before FT8 was even invented.

Quick look:  2016 (the last year before FT8 was invented) had 1771 Bad Spots, 2022 has 799 with two weeks to go.  The other callsign notes (intermixing good and bad calls) were about the same length (2016 longer, but 2022 is not over).

Wishful thinking is a commonplace, alas, and is a human frailty that has nothing to do with FT8 -- or anything else technological for that matter.
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Re: 4S7JL is NOT IN SRI LANKA!!!!
« Reply #7 on: December 16, 2022, 08:04:56 PM »

Wishful thinking is a commonplace, alas, and is a human frailty that has nothing to do with FT8

« Last Edit: December 16, 2022, 08:07:47 PM by N4UFO »
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Re: 4S7JL is NOT IN SRI LANKA!!!!
« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2022, 05:14:54 AM »

Yep, Haters have to Hate.  It is in the DNA and cannot ever be "boiled out". And worthless DX spots seem like the majority now. Any spot that begins with "please" or "pse" should be dumped instantly by the algorithm.

STOP BEGGING PEOPLE!..   Just stop it.   A spotting network is for SPOTTING only!.  It is not a forum for your begging bands/modes.  Or for bitching about the way the DXpedition is being run.
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73  James K0UA
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