Topband: Web SDR's and 'Cheating'

[R. Kevin Stover]

Of course it's wrong.

Why not take the "radio" all the way out of it, use Skype or CQ100,
and call it radio?

I'd be interested to know what the sponsors of the Top Band awards have
to say about it.


On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:38:27 +0000
Brendan Minish <ei6iz.brendan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> 



-- 
R. Kevin Stover
AC0H