On 11/02/2011 18:43, HA0DU Steve wrote:
>Earlier these SDR's had a built-in delay
> and I think an obligatory (ar at least recommended) 1-minute delay would
> solve the cheating problem but still would leave the door open for any
> other experiments.
A built in delay may work fine for WEB SDR's with fixed coverage of one
or more amateur bands.
It DOES NOT work at all for SDR's that can be remotley controlled,
covering the entire LF-HF spectrum, these are SDR's connected to the
internet, once you introduce attentional latency then tuning becomes
nearly impossible
Anyway, why 'neuter' a service that is enjoyed by many simply because a
very few abuse the system, is it not better to catch out the few that
are doing this and disqualify them ?
Over a period of several months I have only seen one clear instance
where someone used my SDR to 'cheat' with working his pileup as somewhat
sought after DXCC entity.
I have not witnessed users utilising it in contests
Most of the users here seem to either be interested in BCDXing or
utility dxing and the receiver gets a few hours a day, every day, of use
and is popular with others because I have fairly decent receive antennas
and a nice low local noise floor.
I will ask the Author of the software If he might consider implementing
additional logging to keep a history of the receive frequencies utilised
by users. Better evidence gathering to allow Contest organisers, Awards
committees etc to take appropriate action is the way forward
73
Brendan EI6IZ
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