- 1. Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: nn4t@comcast.net
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:32:30 +0000 (UTC)
- Good morning. I have followed with interest the discussion on this subject. I enjoyed hearing both sides of the issue from my fellow DXers. Most of the replies have been both thoughtful and respectfu
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- 2. Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Burke" <wi5a@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 09:27:10 -0500
- Will the last guy who actually emits RF from his station please remember to turn off the rig. K5RK _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
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- 3. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:43:37 -0400
- Hi Steve, Thanks for your comments. I may seem like a true heretic being on this list. I'm not a *real* contester and even less a *real* DXer. I do have QSOs with DX stations on several bands. But I
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- 4. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: "T R Mortimer" <mort.g2jl@ntlworld.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:56:55 -0500
- "...Will the last guy who actually emits RF from his station please remember to turn off the rig..". Why bother ? There'll be nobody listening ! 73 de Mort, SV5/G2JL _________________ Topband Reflect
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- 5. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: Charlie <weeksmgr@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:01:29 -0500
- Steve, the perspective of an award chasing RHR user who also has a well equipped home station has been missing from the discussion. Thanks for providing it. There are others who share your views. The
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- 6. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: " Dave AA6YQ" <aa6yq@ambersoft.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:49:30 -0400
- The reaction of the DXing community to new technology over the years has been extremely interesting to observe. Some ops are early adopters, applying every bleeding-edge technology available that isn
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- 7. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: W0MU <w0mu@w0mu.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:04:08 -0600
- Well said Dave! On 7/12/2015 10:49 AM, Dave AA6YQ wrote: The reaction of the DXing community to new technology over the years has been extremely interesting to observe. Some ops are early adopters, a
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- 8. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: W0MU <w0mu@w0mu.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:16:28 -0600
- I think much of the issue with RHR is people are bent out of shape that a group of people have jumped on this and appear to be doing quite well. Business must be booming as they are adding new statio
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- 9. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: Cecil <chacuff@cableone.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 15:47:14 -0500
- It's obvious the DXCC award system is not important to you by your own admission, which doesn't put you in the best of positions to be so vocal about paid/shared remote station access and its impact
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- 10. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: W0MU <w0mu@w0mu.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 16:56:36 -0600
- So what is the difference if I build a station for $100,000 or I rent one for whatever it costs? Nothing. I guess the guy that can't climb towers who has to pay someone else to climb it and fix his s
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- 11. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: "Larry Burke" <wi5a@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 18:10:33 -0500
- So much for civility. So what is the difference if I build a station for $100,000 or I rent one for whatever it costs? Nothing. I guess the guy that can't climb towers who has to pay someone else to
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-07/msg00105.html (19,533 bytes)
- 12. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: James Bennett <w6jhb@me.com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 16:19:53 -0700
- Well folks, I have just about had it with this thread and the group. I had joined the group to possibly help my knowledge of operating and building equipment and antennas for 80 and 160 meters, not t
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- 13. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: Cecil <chacuff@cableone.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 19:20:14 -0500
- Well for one thing your $100,000 station doesn't magically appear anywhere in the country just by selecting a new location on the computer screen because where it's located at the moment ain't gettin
- /archives//html/Topband/2015-07/msg00108.html (22,995 bytes)
- 14. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: "Hardy Landskov" <n7rt@cox.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 17:56:26 -0700
- Why don't we have the drivers of the Indy 500 operate their cars with joysticks in the stands or somewhere far, far away? Same thing as remote, right? This is not my radio!!!! My 2 cents. 73 Hardy N7
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- 15. Topband: The Remote Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug Renwick" <ve5ra@sasktel.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 19:03:01 -0600
- Without inserting politics into the discussion, all one has to do is look at what is going in the world around us and it is clear the ARRL has fallen into the same game plan. Me, me, me and mini me.
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- 16. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: "Hardy Landskov" <n7rt@cox.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 18:24:08 -0700
- All I can say is working the P5 was awesome to me for the last one. The pileups were horrendous, the postage bills too much, but I loved every minute through the years. And I did love the plaque. I d
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- 17. Re: Topband: The Remote Question (score: 1)
- Author: Art Snapper <art@nk8x.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:23:53 -0400
- Remote stations should be operated in the assisted class during contests.. As far as DXCC, how about an endorsement for all stations who earned it using only their local station? My $0.02 Art NK8X __
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- 18. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: "WW3S" <ww3s@zoominternet.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 21:41:57 -0400
- is there a length limit on microphone cords, or key cords? Because for several remote stations, thats what you are talking about.....Im currently in Leesburg VA, over 300 miles from home.....but I st
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- 19. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: Cecil <chacuff@cableone.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:57:54 -0500
- No issue with that...remote operation of your primary station...I don't see any difference between that and local operation of the same station...even if you had worked some DX...great use of the tec
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- 20. Re: Topband: The Remote question (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Harmon <k6uj@pacbell.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 19:48:11 -0700
- Ken, I hear what you are trying to convey but there is a fly in the ointment. I am not trying to impress anyone else. For me it is and always has been a personal achievement. No one here is concerned
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