Hello Steinar,
Apart from you not knowing that this was going on in the background
AND you should have been told, I think
It might be part of modern amateur radio activity.
I think Jose should tell his users that this is happening and perhaps
allow for turning it off and on.
>From my point of view I have no real problem with it. We transmit
in a public medium and should be aware of this.
Amateur transmissions are not private and have never been, outside
the US the regulators tell us what amateur radio is not. You know
what I am talking about. ( hate talk, politics , religion etc )
The same reporting is probably going on here with my monitoring the WSJT
signals at 14076.
http://jt65.w6cqz.org/receptions.php
Now in this case, I have turned on the RB function in order to report
to Joe's RB site ( W4CQZ ) And Joe told me the other day, that he feeds
data into HAMSPOTS.
HAMSPOTS reports receiving data from W4CQZ RB site.
There might be a lot more of that going on, who knows. In my case
I have no problem with it.
I started this all because I was interested in US activity using ROS.
(I know, we are supposed not to talk about this whatever, it IS illegal )
I wanted to know what these calls represent, made up, fake or real.
I contacted one of those amateurs and he told me that he had not been
aware of the legal situation of ROS.
Well not everybody is an ARRL member.
Without the insertion of a call in the ROS configuration, this does not
happen.
I actually think Joe did add this as an enhancement, though it increases
the visibility of ROS of course at the same time
In fact yesterday there were NO US calls visible on HAMSPOTS.
I noticed that the Twitter had been turned off or something changed
Don't Twitter here!
73 Rein W6SZ
-----Original Message-----
>From: Steinar Aanesland <[email protected]>
>Sent: Jul 10, 2010 1:19 PM
>To: [email protected], * ROSDIGITALMODEMGROU
><[email protected]>
>Subject: [digitalradio] Pirate behavior
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>
>Hi all
>
>I've done a little experiment this morning. I left my radio on 14112.0
>and went shopping.
>When I came back, the ROS software had uploaded this reports to the cluster:
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>
>LA5VNA 14103.0 ON3JMD copy ROS Mode -23 dB
>1233 10 Jul Belgium
>LA5VNA 14115.0 UX1CN tnx fer ROS QSO
>1231 10 Jul Ukraine
>LA5VNA 14112.0 IW7DGY ROS test
>1228 10 Jul Italy
>LA5VNA 14103.0 LZ1ZJ CQ ROS
>1212 10 Jul Bulgaria
>LA5VNA 14115.0 UT3HA 599 ROS Mode
>1207 10 Jul Ukraine
>LA5VNA 14103.0 DG8YFM ROS CQ -17 dB
>1122 10 Jul Germany
>LA5VNA 14115.0 EA3AGZ ros mode
>1059 10 Jul Spain
>LA5VNA 14115.0 SP3HC ROS test,
>1049 10 Jul Poland
>LA5VNA 14112.0 EB1MS ROS, 73
>1032 10 Jul Spain
>LA5VNA 14115.0 US5VAC ROS test,
>1017 10 Jul Ukraine
>LA5VNA 14115.0 EB3JT tnx ros mode
>0956 10 Jul Spain
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>Not only is it a fake message , the software lies about the frequency too.
>
>This is nothing more then pirate behavior..
>
>LA5VNA Steinar
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