Topband: Web SDR's and 'Cheating'

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

Why should the general listener be punished because of some cheaters. A delay is not necessary; we just need ethical contesters.

This is also no worse than contesters who use DX clusters or DX spots do locate DX stations.

I'm old fashioned. We shouldn't use any external communications infrastructure when making QSO's.

Mike N2MS

----- Original Message -----
From: Kostas Stamatis <sv1dpi at otenet.gr>
To: topband at contesting.com
Sent: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:58:55 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Topband: Web SDR's and 'Cheating'

Anyone who makes available his sdr without delay, just helps cheaters. We 
all know some of them who use a sdr receiver to make qsos. Maybe there is no 
need anymore to learn the calls. Just stop this. A delay of 1min for example 
is perfect to enjoy all the goods of an sdr receiver without helping 
cheaters. I don't know if software allows it but i don't think it is 
difficult.
73 Kostas sv1dpi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thorvaldur Stefansson" 
To: "Brendan Minish" ; 
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: Web SDR's and 'Cheating'


> hello Brendan,
>
> Perhaps this thread is too old, but I only now came across it, sorry if 
> the
> subject has been beaten to death already.
>
> As you may know I have served my Perseus SDR receiver over the internet 
> for
> almost a year - it never occurred to me that people would use it for
> cheating purposes.   I found the experiment interesting for a variety of
> technical issues - it also pleased me to allow remote users to experience
> what Zero Noise level sounds like.   Obviously the issues are the same
> whether a SDR or a regular remote receiver is used for cheating.
>