On 9/27/2021 12:51 PM, WA8LMF via groups.io wrote:
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 now appears to be definitely malicious.??? BG0GE has now upped the transmit rate into the APRS-IS? to once every 10 seconds, apparently in response to my once a minute beaconing of the correct posit.? Further, he is including the Chinese porn site URL in his comment/status field.
A portion of APRS.fi's raw packet log:
2021-09-27 13:19:56 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>APU25N,TCPIP*,qAC,T2USANW:=/8qp_9/pH>??BBG0GE-6?Igate?In?China?Disrupting?My?Posit! *[Rate limited (< 5 sec)]*
2021-09-27 13:20:03 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXV,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.\!n^_>/]"4v} *[Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]*
2021-09-27 13:20:08 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXV,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.\.nh_>/]"4w}
2021-09-27 13:20:14 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXU,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.\7nh_>/]"4x}
2021-09-27 13:20:19 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXU,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.\An,_>/]"4y}
2021-09-27 13:20:24 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXU,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.\Cl"_>/]"4y}
2021-09-27 13:20:30 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXT,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.\Pn^_>/]"4y}
2021-09-27 13:20:35 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXT,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.\]n^_>/]"4z}
2021-09-27 13:20:40 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXT,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.\fn^_>/]"4{}
2021-09-27 13:20:45 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXS,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.\sn^_>/]"4z}
2021-09-27 13:20:51 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXS,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.]<0x1c>nT^>/]"4z}
2021-09-27 13:20:56 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXR,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.]$n^_>/]"4z}
2021-09-27 13:20:57 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>APU25N,TCPIP*,qAC,T2USANW:=/8qp_9/pH>??BBG0GE-6?Igate?In?China?Disrupting?My?Posit! *[Rate limited (< 5 sec)]*
2021-09-27 13:21:01 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXR,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.]1nT^>/]"4{} *[Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]*
2021-09-27 13:21:12 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXQ,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.]FnT_>/]"4{}
2021-09-27 13:21:17 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPTXQ,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'.]Gl"W>/]"4{}
2021-09-27 13:21:56 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>APU25N,TCPIP*,qAC,T2USANW:=/8qp_9/pH>??BBG0GE-6?Igate?In?China?Disrupting?My?Posit! *[Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]*
2021-09-27 13:22:03 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>APU25N,WIDE1-1,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:>202337z
2021-09-27 13:22:57 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>APU25N,TCPIP*,qAC,T2USANW:=/8qp_9/pH>??BBG0GE-6?Igate?In?China?Disrupting?My?Posit! *[Duplicate position packet]*
2021-09-27 13:23:56 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>APU25N,TCPIP*,qAC,T2USANW:=/8qp_9/pH>??BBG0GE-6?Igate?In?China?Disrupting?My?Posit! *[Duplicate position packet]*
2021-09-27 13:24:57 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>APU25N,TCPIP*,qAC,T2USANW:=/8qp_9/pH>??BBG0GE-6?Igate?In?China?Disrupting?My?Posit! *[Duplicate position packet]*
2021-09-27 13:25:56 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>APU25N,TCPIP*,qAC,T2USANW:=/8qp_9/pH>??BBG0GE-6?Igate?In?China?Disrupting?My?Posit! *[Duplicate position packet]*
2021-09-27 13:26:47 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>STPYXT,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6 <>:'._<0x1d>l#?>/]"7,} *[Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]*
2021-09-27 13:26:57 EDT: *WA8LMF <>*>APU25N,TCPIP*,qAC,T2USANW:=/8qp_9/pH>??BBG0GE-6?Igate?In?China?Disrupting?My?Posit! *[Location changes too fast (adaptive limit)]*
