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KW4CQ

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Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« on: February 22, 2015, 05:56:00 PM »

He caused a bit of a stir during the contest for a while exchanging reports around 22:30.  Anyone work him?  Legitimate or was he just another pirate?  No data on him and he doesn't show up in in QRZ.

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Bob KW4CQ
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N5BO

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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2015, 05:58:40 PM »

Looks like it was SJ2W and some thought it was S22W.
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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2015, 06:03:32 PM »

Looks like someone's code reader was mis-calibrated ;D

There was also the usual BY/6Y confusion but that's par for the course.
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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2015, 06:08:07 PM »

There was also the usual BY/6Y confusion but that's par for the course.

Or the 'Portable 5' that gets posted on the cluster as xxxx/P5 :D

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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2015, 06:28:43 PM »

There was also the usual BY/6Y confusion but that's par for the course.



Here's how I rang in 1995.  Nestled without apparent surprise right next to a 40m QSO with Florida, and named "Ken."  I'm pretty sure even then I suspected it was wrong... even a 13-year-old n00b knew China on 40 at 10 PM probably wasn't right.   :D
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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2015, 07:10:44 PM »

Never heard anyone with that call.

I did find SJ2W on 15 cw.

What a difference a dit makes...EH ?
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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2015, 10:45:40 PM »

I worked SJ2W on 15m around that time. Sure wish I miscopied it and that it actually was S22W.

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KW4CQ

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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2015, 02:34:42 AM »

Thanks guys.  Guess I got tone deaf from the contest by then.  Comes with age I suppose.   ;D

Bob KW4CQ


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K5PS

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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2015, 05:32:05 AM »

Seems there were several cases of a missing dot this past weekend. There were EK2TA (EC2TA), BY2A (6Y2A), and EZ4EBL (E74EBL).

I think I know what happened to them...A lot of people I called during the contest kept hearing me as "KK7JH". So I apologize for being a dot thief.
« Last Edit: February 23, 2015, 05:35:29 AM by KK7JS »
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N3QE

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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2015, 06:02:54 AM »

Looks like it was SJ2W and some thought it was S22W.

Yes, at 7-9PM localtime there has been this nice consistent 15M opening to Scandinavia with many signals peaking up, and around the clock on 20M.

Reversebeacon did not bust the call. Only manual spotters busted the call. It is very unwise to enter a CW DX contest in assisted category, and not be using reversebeacon spots.

Tim N3QE
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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2015, 06:46:47 AM »

Well, I worked him and he very clearly was sending S22W, although there were spots for both him and SJ2W.  But then there were tons of erroneous spots and a lot of stations who couldn't send their call twice the same way if it had an "H" in it.  Anyway, use the ancient DX practice: Work him now, worry later.
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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2015, 09:37:51 AM »

I am good friends with SM2LIY - operator last weekend as SJ2W - and also SM2WMV, owner of the station.

I highly doubt he was signing S22W, using CPU generated keying (via the contest logging software).  More likely it sounded like an extra did due to polar flutter.

Someone apparently was spotted a lot of busted calls on purpose last weekend, playing games.  I was QRV at KH7XX and on Sunday was spotted as KH6XX.  Over the next 15 minutes I worked 40 dupes who all assumed I was KH6XX, even though I signed my call (KH7XX) after every single dupe QSO, even slowing down significantly and adding time between the H-7-X to accentuate it was 7, not 6.   Dupes continued to call in.

Who cares what the DX is sending - if packet tells me it's something else - then dammit that's what he must be.

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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #12 on: February 23, 2015, 09:46:53 AM »

Seems there were several cases of a missing dot this past weekend. There were EK2TA (EC2TA), BY2A (6Y2A), and EZ4EBL (E74EBL).

I think I know what happened to them...A lot of people I called during the contest kept hearing me as "KK7JH". So I apologize for being a dot thief.

With my callsign ending in E, I did a lot of corrections while S&P.

I know when I was heavy into running, that several Italian stations with computer/keyer/amp timing issues were sending a leading E instead of an I. So much so that for a while I was thinking to myself "geeze my contest logger ought to really have some sort of keyboard shortcut for fixing the leading part of a call rather than me having to hit backarrow so many times".
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K5PS

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RE: Anyone work S22W Bangladesh on 15m CW today?
« Reply #13 on: February 23, 2015, 10:21:04 AM »

With my callsign ending in E, I did a lot of corrections while S&P.

I know when I was heavy into running, that several Italian stations with computer/keyer/amp timing issues were sending a leading E instead of an I. So much so that for a while I was thinking to myself "geeze my contest logger ought to really have some sort of keyboard shortcut for fixing the leading part of a call rather than me having to hit backarrow so many times".

I don't know what happened this past weekend in regards to my call getting busted so much. Had the same setup in CQWW CW and did not get anywhere near as many then.

My theory is that the contest software partial call lookup just kept coming up w/JH and ops went with that. I had to add my call to the report though to make sure that they got it right...Later on in the contest some ops seemed to recognize me and would send a call correction at the end of their report.

I've heard that these lookup lists come from DXpeditions? If that is so...then my call has been busted as "JH" during a few of them in the recent past.

There is a KK7JH listed on QRZ, though I don't know if they're as active as I am.
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