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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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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)]*
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Actually, the web site is likely from one of your old packets on the CD.? If you do an e/BG0GE-6 filter, you'll see that it's not just you, but LOTS of southern California stations.? And BG0GE-6's comment says "9600&1200 Baud Nucleo-TNC TEST", so I suspect s/he is just unaware of the fact that the test is actually being gated to the APRS-IS.
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
PS.? For example, these just in from e/BG0GE-6:
WA6YLB>APRX46,WA6YLB-7*,N6EX-5*,qAR,BG0GE-6:=3617.37N/11908.94W_009/000g000t064r000p000....h00b10176dU2ks.c
WA6YLB-4>APRS,W6PVG-3*,WB6JAR-10*,WIDE1*,qAR,BG0GE-6:$ULTW00000000----0000----000086A00001----0000000000000000
WA6YLB>APRX46,WA6YLB-5*,W6PVG-3*,WB6JAR-10*,WIDE2*,qAR,BG0GE-6:>081839zwa6ylb@...
KN6DB-14>GPSLK,N6EX-4*,qAR,BG0GE-6:$GPRMC,015151,A,3348.8480,N,11800.1697,W,000.0,274.0,231105,013.4,E*6F
AD6NH>APRS,N6EX-4*,qAR,BG0GE-6:;LA LOAD *220951z3352.18N\11749.77W? 108 In 10 Minutes
N6VNI-14>APRS,RELAY*,WIDE,WIDE,qAR,BG0GE-6:!3356.06N/11758.01Wk Geo & Kris LaHabra,CA
N3DAB-3>APT311,W6PVG-3*,WB6JAR-10*,WIDE3-1,qAR,BG0GE-6:/230152z3501.99N/11806.01Wk302/044/A=002608/In Service - TT3
W6KL>APS210,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6:$ULTW0000000002E2000027AD00058F90000101780145043300000000
N6QFD-9>GPSLJ,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6:$GPRMC,015214,A,3409.1107,N,11806.8100,W,0.0,84.9,231105,13.5,E,D*07
KF6YVS-6>APT202,WB6JAR-10*,WIDE3-2,qAR,BG0GE-6:!0000.000/00000.000>000/000
K7ELH-7>S3QRTX,WB6JAR-10*,WIDE1*,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6:'-+(l!X>/]"5)}
WB6JAR-10>BEACON,qAR,BG0GE-6:>WIDE2-2 is best path in SoCal
AE6MP>SS5TTX-2,N6EX-1*,qAR,BG0GE-6:`.^:l*!>/"4a}
KF6DQ-5>S4QTUZ,W6SCE-10*,qAR,BG0GE-6:'.N? "@v/]"6l}TM-D700
K6JLW>APT310,N6EX-5*,qAR,BG0GE-6:!0000.000/00000.000-000/000/!3410.30N/11911.33W->k6jlw@... 146.970
N6VNI-14>APRS,RELAY*,WIDE,WIDE,qAR,BG0GE-6:!3356.05N/11758.01Wk Geo & Kris LaHabra,CA
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On 9/27/2021 1:40 PM, WA8LMF via groups.io wrote: 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)]*
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On 9/27/2021 2:53 PM, Lynn Deffenbaugh wrote: Actually, the web site is likely from one of your old packets on the CD.? If you do an e/BG0GE-6 filter, you'll see that it's not just you, but LOTS of southern California stations.? And BG0GE-6's comment says "9600&1200 Baud Nucleo-TNC TEST", so I suspect s/he is just unaware of the fact that the test is actually being gated to the APRS-IS.
Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
PS.? For example, these just in from e/BG0GE-6:
WA6YLB>APRX46,WA6YLB-7*,N6EX-5*,qAR,BG0GE-6:=3617.37N/11908.94W_009/000g000t064r000p000....h00b10176dU2ks.c
WA6YLB-4>APRS,W6PVG-3*,WB6JAR-10*,WIDE1*,qAR,BG0GE-6:$ULTW00000000----0000----000086A00001----0000000000000000
WA6YLB>APRX46,WA6YLB-5*,W6PVG-3*,WB6JAR-10*,WIDE2*,qAR,BG0GE-6:>081839zwa6ylb@...
KN6DB-14>GPSLK,N6EX-4*,qAR,BG0GE-6:$GPRMC,015151,A,3348.8480,N,11800.1697,W,000.0,274.0,231105,013.4,E*6F
AD6NH>APRS,N6EX-4*,qAR,BG0GE-6:;LA LOAD *220951z3352.18N\11749.77W? 108 In 10 Minutes
N6VNI-14>APRS,RELAY*,WIDE,WIDE,qAR,BG0GE-6:!3356.06N/11758.01Wk Geo & Kris LaHabra,CA
N3DAB-3>APT311,W6PVG-3*,WB6JAR-10*,WIDE3-1,qAR,BG0GE-6:/230152z3501.99N/11806.01Wk302/044/A=002608/In Service - TT3
W6KL>APS210,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6:$ULTW0000000002E2000027AD00058F90000101780145043300000000
N6QFD-9>GPSLJ,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6:$GPRMC,015214,A,3409.1107,N,11806.8100,W,0.0,84.9,231105,13.5,E,D*07
KF6YVS-6>APT202,WB6JAR-10*,WIDE3-2,qAR,BG0GE-6:!0000.000/00000.000>000/000
K7ELH-7>S3QRTX,WB6JAR-10*,WIDE1*,WIDE2-2,qAR,BG0GE-6:'-+(l!X>/]"5)}
WB6JAR-10>BEACON,qAR,BG0GE-6:>WIDE2-2 is best path in SoCal
AE6MP>SS5TTX-2,N6EX-1*,qAR,BG0GE-6:`.^:l*!>/"4a}
KF6DQ-5>S4QTUZ,W6SCE-10*,qAR,BG0GE-6:'.N? "@v/]"6l}TM-D700
K6JLW>APT310,N6EX-5*,qAR,BG0GE-6:!0000.000/00000.000-000/000/!3410.30N/11911.33W->k6jlw@... 146.970
N6VNI-14>APRS,RELAY*,WIDE,WIDE,qAR,BG0GE-6:!3356.05N/11758.01Wk Geo & Kris LaHabra,CA That's the "rush hour" track on the CD.? It was recorded off-the-air on 144.39 from my QTH (at the time) in Pasadena. It was a capture during the Southern Cal rush hour (which extends from about 3:00 PM until 8:00 PM!? This capture was about 4:30--5:30) reflecting the worst imaginable APRS traffic in existence, with almost constant multiple transmissions on top of each other, wildly over- and under- deviated stations, idiots with CW IDs in the middle of the chaos, etc. You hear traffic being digipeated by 4 mountain-top digis at 4,000 feet+ elevation ringing the greater LA basin simultaneously. Frequently, two or three of the digis would each digipeat DIFFERENT stations at the same time, depending on which mobiles on the ground were nearest which digis. Note that in southern Cal, most of the time, mobiles have a true? low-loss? line-of-sight path to one or more digis, even when they were 40-50 miles away! [Most of the population of 18 million+? of greater LA is below 500-800 feet elevation, while the digis are up 4000 feet or more in the mountains ringing the greater LA area.] [People in the flat-lands east of the Mississippi just can't imagine the APRS anarchy that extends for over 150 miles up and down the SoCal coast due to digis at multiple THOUSANDS of feet elevation.? Conversely, I have always laughed when newly-minted hams in SoCal get accustomed to hand-helds routinely working voice repeaters from 50 miles away. Then they go on trips to the Midwest or Florida,? and can't understand why they can't reach the edge of town with their $1.98 handhelds! ] Then to make the rush-hour even worse, I edited out any dead air of more than 5 seconds (rare in that mess) with an audio editor. The idea was to provide the worst-case challenge to TNCs with under-sized buffers such as the Kenwood D700 mobile and TH-D7 handheld. Before, this guy had only been playing the track of my solo drive test on a quiet (non-144.39) channel. The intent of this track was to challenge TNCs with a signal fluctuating between strong-signal full-quieting? and periodic loss of quieting/mobile flutter as I drove into and out of strong signal areas.? The receive/record location was at my house in Pasadena, as I drove a 25-mile loop around the San Gabriel Valley, beaconing with a D700.? The receive audio was taken off the 6-pin mini-DIN port of a Yaesu FT-1500.
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Hi Stephen,
Well your HF Igate still works fine. It copies my station here in Arkansas all day. China is having severe power outages due to all the coal miners having Covid. Hopefully that station will lose power and just go away.
Wayne
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