> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ken Alexander
> Sent: March 19, 2007 23:46
> To: vo1he@rac.ca; 'Ev Tupis'; CQ-Contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Remote Site Contesting Rules -
> Getting out of hand
>
> --- "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com> wrote:
>
> > My point is that when I make contact with a station, even in a
> > contest, it's the operator that I am working, not the equipment.
> > Isn't it the operator who
> > is licenced; not the equipment? When you call someone on
> the phone, it
> > is ultimately the person on the other end that matters, not
> the myriad
> > of switching equipment and relays that the signal has gone
> through to
> > get there and where that is located. When I send an e-mail to my
> > neighbour on another ISP, it goes through the network to
> Montreal and
> > back. Should I consider him to be in Montreal?
>
> Sorry, no sale Paul. If I had a ham friend in KH6 who let me
> operate his station remotely in the next CQWW you'd have to
> turn your antenna towards Hawaii, you'd have to wait until
> propagation favours Hawaii from your QTH, and you'd have to
> pick the band(s) that would favour propagation to Hawaii. At
> the end of the contest, if you'd worked me you would have
> worked KH6, not VE3.
>
> 73,
>
> Ken Alexander, VE3HLS
> (who hopes to operate live from VO1 some day!)
Hi Ken,
If you work a guy in Bermuda on 10M FM through a repeater in the CN Tower,
did you actually worked Ontario or Bermuda?
73 -- Paul VO1HE
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