[VHFcontesting] VHF contesting ethics questions

[Zack Widup]

I don't have a problem with that at all, any more than I do with using 
one of the computer programs that calculates beam heading from 
6-character grid squares. You're not using the NWS info like you would 
packet and it doesn't guarantee anybody will even be there at the other 
end.

When I'm on a hilltop, I usually don't have anything I can do that with 
and also I can SEE the thundertops, so I just point toward them hoping to 
hear something. But if I had the facilities with me I'd use them to 
establish where to point.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, kb8u vhf wrote:

>
> 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
>