[VHFcontesting] VHF contesting ethics questions

[Paul Kiesel]

I messed up my reply to this, so here it is:

In the interst of being specific about the topic of
using the internet, I ask:

May a single op station participating in the June VHF
QSO Party use the N0UK Ping Jockey and EME pages to
look for callsigns/frequencies of potential QSOs? I
think not, but there are others who disagree.

Paul, K7CW

--- Paul Kiesel <k7cw at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- "Chet, N8RA" <chetsubaccount at 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 at contesting.com
> > [mailto:vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com] On
> > Behalf Of kb8u vhf
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:04 AM
> > To: vhfcontesting at 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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