Topband: Web SDR's and 'Cheating'

[Brendan Minish]

Hello all

I have a Software Defined Receiver (SDR) that I make available when I am 
not using it for others to use. it's an SDR-14 and is usually connected 
to one of my beverages via a multi-coupler so it hears and performs well
Software wise , anyone using sdrradio can connect to it.
the latency is alos very low with sdrradio.

I am happy to make this available to others because in turn I enjoy 
using internet connected SDR's provided by others

last night however I took a listen to what the connected user was 
listening to, It turns out that the connected user was a DX station 
utilising my SDR to work 160m SSB. He had a pileup of EU stations and 
was utilising my SDR to better hear his pileup.
Surely this is 'not on' After all the EU stations may have been able to 
hear him (although I could not copy him better than about 21 here)
But he was using a receiver within Europe to hear the EU stations calling.

What is the ethical position on this, it sure seems wrong to me



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73
Brendan EI6IZ