Friends, I had to take this opportunity after the comment about the end of rare sections... I think all this remote work, trying to help J. etc is interesting and wonderful and I really don't mea
A scientist goes to Bouvet He is a good friend , who normally lives 1 block from your house. He sets up a remote at his home , and operates from Bouvet. You work him on 160 meters... So did you work
Drew, That was a great post! I'm sure that if a survey were conducted using a huge population of hams there would be a very direct correlation between age/year of first license to how strong their op
Simple answer.. IF the operation is a remote controlled op.. NOT within the commonly ascribed to 1000 ft circle type of restriction.. but more distant.. then that should simply be a new class of op..
Hi Drew, How can your "non-hams" even comprehend the idea? They have no concept. Certainly, they are entitled to use words like "it's cheating" all they want. However, I guess contesting luminaries l
Gerry, I think you miss my point to some degree. I had tried to carefully not accuse anyone of anything or start a flame war. I think I acknowledged inclusiveness of opinions. Everyone has perfe
Dale, Thanks for the post! I don't think that a unique category addresses all concerns of remote operation, but I certainly agree that it is a reasonable step, just as assisted categories were. I
I think a point worth mentioning is that the rare section still has a station. - Someone built it - Someone keeps it going - The station is (still) in the rare section Its the reality that the someon
Not for those of us who work that station -- we've done the same things to make the contact that we would do whether the operator was freezing his cahoonies off in VY1 or sitting in Miami with an int
Stu (and Contest Community), There is nothing to disagree with in your point of view, very well said. I don't entirely agree with it, not because it is wrong but because my interests are a bit dif
Please feel free to put a remote station in Bovet or any other rare DX and see how that works out for you. I don't think you have a clue how much work needs to go into your pie in the sky example. Wh
It sounds so easy doesn't it? Drop a remote HF station on a remote island like Bouvet and suddenly its on all the time? Really? First you have to get there, then you need to set it up, then you need
In October I took an exploratory trip to the most northeastern coastal portion of Maine to evaluate a contest station project there. The station would be able to be operatedon-site or remotely. I wou
I'm sorry if I took your comments in the wrong way, Drew. I'm all about contrary opinion. My point about outsiders is that we are discussing something very technical about a particular aspect of cont
Exactly how is that different from flying in to a rental contesting station, plugging in the K3 and computer that you carried in your luggage, and hooking up to antennas that someone else installed,
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 06:17:00 -0500
Excellent points Mike. These remotes that are being offered now are usually offered in "first world" localities with a resident ham on site, dedicated power mains, fiber optic internet connections (m
This thread has become really depressing. As others have noted, the point is to get in the contest. I'll be there, with my random wire aerial from an apartment: an apartment I paid for and a station
I was having the very same feelings, like this is really a bummer. So much so, I was really thinking of dumping all the technology, and try SS this year the same way I did in 1976, A Straight key and
You took down the superstation and moved it to 4-land? Awesome! See you this weekend! Matt--K7BG http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/cq-contest/2015-November/111315.html Sent from my iStraight Key
Author: George K5KG via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:44:05 -0500
I agree. All of the grousing about remote operating is beginning to sound what it was like when SSB was overtaking AM back in the 1950s! Geo... K1TN/4 (CK 61, first SS 1962) _________________________