Topband: European SDR on 160m

[john battin]

Certainly the SDR is of no use in contests .... but I used one of the European sites to do some antenna pattern checks, and to  compare antennas ... wow is that nice.

John  K9DX
 
> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:07:34 +0100
> From: calle.jonsson at sverige.nu
> To: topband at contesting.com
> Subject: Topband: European SDR on 160m
> 
> Using SDR in Europe (or Norh America) is of course to cheat- It has
> nothing to do with amateur radio. However, I don´t think it´ll be a major
> problem since the cheater is easily revealed. He is surrounded by many
> real radio amateurs with good receiving antennas and receivers. In a short
> while it becomes very well known who is cheating.
> It is not possible, as an example, to work a rare pacific station in broad
> daylight when a dozen of real hams within a few miles
> from the cheater, armed with various beverages and good rx don´t even
> hear a whisper on freq. The cheating guy generally goes qrt for ever when
> it becomes known what he has been doing. Especially if he is on top of
> dxcc nationallisting.
> 73 and a happy new year
> SM6CPY Carl
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