Well, they cheating in DXCC and contest. Its the beginning of the end of DXCC
program. Its become $$$ buisness to rent out HF remote, any non ham can use a
station without control operator with a valid license
---Sent by iphoneLB3RE LJ3RE K3RAG ex: LA6FJA
CEPT has nothing to do with it - for operations under the CEPT agreement,
the operator must be in the same country as the transmitter.
The difficulty here is that rules for remote operation vary from country to
country - there is no single answer.
Don G3XTT
On 16 December 2014 at 18:27, Barry <w2up@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Saturday afternoon, during the 10m contest, I was surprised to be
> called by a very loud YO4. Condx were such that the band was not open to
> central/eastern EU here in Colorado at that time. Given the signal
> strength, I presume the YO4 was using a remote on the east coast of the US.
>
> What are the legalities of such an operation? Should he be signing
> W/YO4xxx? Off the top of my head, I don't know if YO is a part of CEPT,
> but if not, what kind of licensing permission, if any, is required for such
> an operation?
>
> Where does this type of operation fall in terms of contest rules and
> ethics?
>
> Barry W2UP
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