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Spotcollector behavior

 

Has anyone else had my recent experience with multiple "spots" from a single callsign showing up in Spotcollector at the same time. In one instance a Polish station nearly filled the entire Spotcollector screen? This just happened again with two or three callsigns showing up, filling the page.
I do not think it is a Spotcollector issue per se but likely something from each of the Networks. Weird behavior, never experienced it before.
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de Paul NF1G

 

yea, something weird going on......getting a bunch of 80M spots for EU right now and its broad daylight there......and seeing the same thing, I'll get 5 spots from the same station, by 5 different stations on 5 different freqs.......and FT8 spots in the phone section of the band , I'm guessing something went belly up in the network.....


------ Original Message ------
From "Paul Kelliher via groups.io" <Paulkelliher@...>
Date 3/2/2025 6:49:37 AM
Subject [DXLab] Spotcollector behavior

Has anyone else had my recent experience with multiple "spots" from a single callsign showing up in Spotcollector at the same time. In one instance a Polish station nearly filled the entire Spotcollector screen? This just happened again with two or three callsigns showing up, filling the page.
I do not think it is a Spotcollector issue per se but likely something from each of the Networks. Weird behavior, never experienced it before.
?
de Paul NF1G

 

Has anyone else had my recent experience with multiple "spots" from a single callsign showing up in Spotcollector at the same time. In one instance a Polish station nearly filled the entire Spotcollector screen This just happened again with two or three callsigns showing up, filling the page.
I do not think it is a Spotcollector issue per se but likely something from each of the Networks. Weird behavior, never experienced it before.

+ Yes: large number of spots of a single callsign on multiple frequencies - more than 10 - simultaneously, repeated for several different callsigns.

+ A persistent implementation of this would constitute a denial-of-service attack that would render the DX Cluster network useless. This vulnerability will persist until DXCluster operators gain the ability to revoke a client's ability to generate outgoing spots.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ
 

Thanks for the explanation, Dave I did crosscheck against the DX Spotting network on QRZ and it did not appear to be affected. Probably isolated to certain Networks and I just happen to have one or more of them as a Source for Spotcollector.

On 03/02/2025 2:13 PM EST Dave AA6YQ <aa6yq@...> wrote:


Has anyone else had my recent experience with multiple "spots" from a single callsign showing up in Spotcollector at the same time. In one instance a Polish station nearly filled the entire Spotcollector screen This just happened again with two or three callsigns showing up, filling the page.
I do not think it is a Spotcollector issue per se but likely something from each of the Networks. Weird behavior, never experienced it before.

+ Yes: large number of spots of a single callsign on multiple frequencies - more than 10 - simultaneously, repeated for several different callsigns.

+ A persistent implementation of this would constitute a denial-of-service attack that would render the DX Cluster network useless. This vulnerability will persist until DXCluster operators gain the ability to revoke a client's ability to generate outgoing spots.

73,

Dave, AA6YQ



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