--- "Chet, N8RA" <chetsubaccount@snet.net> wrote:
> My current belief is that propagation data sites
> like
>
> -the aurora oval picture
> -Hepburn map predictions
> -WWV SFI A and K info
> -muf plots
> -E's cloud maps
> -NWS radar images
>
> that have no specific real time station callsigns
> displayed with them, are
> OK to use, and are within the letter, spirit and
> intent of the rules. These
> don't solicit, suggest, or pre-fill info on working
> a specific station right
> now. If my belief is not correct, I'm certainly open
> to hear about it.
>
> The site you mention does show callsigns if you
> mouseover the color bands.
> (But I really don't know if those are unworkable
> stations like beacons or
> repeaters or include indicators from stations now
> active in that location.)
>
> Discussion of specific examples of ok's and no-no's
> really helps make it
> clearer to me, much more so than trying to parse the
> meanings of words in
> multiple sets of rules as an attorney might-hi.
>
> 73
> Chet, N8RA
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of kb8u vhf
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:04 AM
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> Subject: [VHFcontesting] VHF contesting ethics
> questions
>
>
> Do people think it is ethical to use the internet to
> get National Weather
> Service radar images to assist in knowing where to
> point a 10 GHz dish for
> rain-scatter propagation during contests when all
> other aspects of the
> contact are facilitated over the air? Exclude the
> 10 GHz and up contest
> since the rules for that one say anything goes.
>
> How about use of the real-time propagtion map at
>
http://www.mountainlake.k12.mn.us/ham/aprs/path.cgi?map=na
> ?
>
> Neither give the callsign or frequency of anybody
> you could work so I'm OK
> with them but I'll stop if I'm in the minority.
>
> -Russ KB8U
>
>
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