For about a week now, looking up WA8LMF on findu.com or aprs.fi?? has yielded a map showing my location as being in Los Angeles.? (Rather than my current location in Haslett in central Michigan.)
This is due to the igate? BG0GE-6 in Xi'an China constantly igating a playback of the APRS Test CD I created over 16 years ago.? This CD was intended for direct audio playback into TNCs for testing; not for over-the-air transmission. One of the tracks on the CD is a recording of me, off-the-air, doing a 20-mile drive test around the San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles.
This recording, for reasons unknown, is now being played back constantly into the APRS Internet System via the
BG0GE-6 igate, constantly over-writing my current position reports from here in Michigan.
The fake APRS drive test being endlessly repeated on the Internet!
After considerable search, I located an email address for
BG0GE? <bg0ge@...> and sent him an email asking him to please stop this igating.?? I have received no response back.
My website is WA8LMF.net .? Today, I discovered that?? WA8LMF.COM? (a domain I haven't used for many years) is now a Chinese porn site!!
I have now configured a copy of UIview to beacon into the Internet (not over the air) my current location every 60 seconds.? This includes the comment "BG0GE-6 Igate In China Disrupting My Posit!" .? Hoping they will get the message.....
This is wierd !!!
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Stephen H. Smith??? wa8lmf (at) aol.com
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