I think agree with you Tom, and as you suggest, creating the possibility to
have a list of calls that is not answered by WSJT-X might be a better
solution. An 'Ignore' list where users can put in calls of known bots and
other callsign ranges other that they don't want to work would
absolutely be a nice thing to have.

Anders

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 1:26 PM tom <t...@tkrh.co.uk> wrote:

> Against it.
>
> There are too many callsigns being issued for numerous reasons -
> anniversaries / covid / 1st etc.  Having the software check (and keep
> having to get internal lists updates from other sites) is not really
> practical.
>
> I can’t think of an easy way to detect pirates - non-dxcc you have the
> overhead and issues as mentioned above - there is no ‘100% verifiable’ list
> of genuine callsigns - also no way to tell that the GM8MJV you are working
> is in fact me - it’s a valid callsign - someone may  be using it - a pirate
> but unable to detect it.
>
> Would be better off concentrating on detecting and blocking the robots and
> flag those.
>
> Tom
> GM8MJV
>
>
> > On 9 Feb 2021, at 10:37, Anders Strange <anders.stra...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Would it be an idea to implement a 'Valid DXCC' checking and 'Pirate
> Detection' feature?
> >
> > The problem is that pirate callsigns like the Dxx from the Donetsk
> region in Russia show up as new/unknown DXCC's. It would be fairly easy to
> implement a check against the ITU list and the valid DXCC list and make a
> new color for 'possible pirate' or something.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > 73's
> > Anders / OZ3ACB
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