Andy, LF,
I've never been comfortable with K1JT spots, especially on MF, given the
software's default settings have his callsign and grid square.
Digging deeper in the WSPRnet log shows that at the same time as the
spot of G4JNT on 500kHz there are lots of spots from K1JT on 10MHz.
While this isn't conclusive (I often monitor 2 bands at once) what is
more suspicious is that all the 30m spots are reported with the grid of
FN20qi (presumably the correct 6-fig grid for the real K1JT) and the
spot of Andy on 500kHz is only 4-figs FN20
This might point to it being a "forgot to change the defaults" spot by
A.N.Other?
However!!
Looking at all K1JT's spots on VLF/LF shows that he's received BHZ
(again with the 4-fig FN20 grid) and many of W22XGR and W32XGR (with the
same 4-fig FN20) - these XGR spots are with very good S/N ratios, which
might indicate that it's genuinely the real K1JT and that his MF version
of WSPR is set to report only with the 4-fig grid square.
So - unless you can ask Joe himself, it looks like I'd accept them as
genuine? There aren't any other obviously erroneous K1JT spots in the
database that I can see over the recent past (ie simultaneous spots on
multiple bands indicating there are several phantom K1JT's out there).
Cheers,
John
GM4SLV
Andy Talbot wrote:
I queried a few instances on this some months ago, and several stations
sugegsted the log was genuine. They're in the database, and can be found by
searching with callsign and reporter filters set. Those roughly coincided
with being heard by A1AA, which is more likely to be genuine.
2009-11-09 09:12
G4JNT 0.503849 -23 0 IO90iv 0.2 K1JT FN20 5599 288
At 09-12 ... amazing !
G ..
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