Here's what I sent my director:
For whatever it’s worth, I’m generally OK with leaving DXCC as-is as regards to
remote operating. I don’t necessarily see remote operating as any more or less
“troubling” as going to a neighbor’s/buddy’s big gun station to grab a new one,
or traveling across the country to have an easier shot at a desired continent,
etc.
That being said, I think it wouldn’t be a bad idea to have some kind of “DXCC
classic” (or some such augmented title), where in addition to the usual DXCC
rules, there were two additional criteria:
• The station used to make a “DXCC classic”-eligible QSO must be designed
primarily for the use of the applicant (exception: husband/wife or
parent/live-at-home-children teams); and
• All QSOs for a given award must have been made within a 250 mile
circle, within a single DXCC entity
…and advance the “QSOs made after… are eligible” date to the present time
Those rules might need to be tweaked, but the intent is to not disallow remote
operation (particularly for those hams who live away from their stations due to
HOA restrictions, etc.), but instead foster individual amateurs’ efforts at
better station design and engineering. While I have no objections to
operations like Remote Ham Radio, or those who may queue up at a big gun
station from whence many different operators may seek to work a rare New One… I
can empathize with those who might feel that such tactics are “cheating”.
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Michael Adams | N1EN | mda@n1en.org
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