it's readily accepted that people who don't live in DX countries,
set up stations there and travel there to operate during contests.
Obviously a lot of work to pull that off, so kudos to them.
Seems like the only difference here, is that the human doesn't
travel on the contest weekend, and accepts the technical risks
of unfixable breakdowns. Obviously the station had to have
gotten built somehow, so that work doesn't change (in fact
there's more technical work)..
Since breakdowns always happen (I assume
no local support for fixing antennas etc is allowed during
the contest?), it would seem unlikely for someone to
succeed/dominate.
If in fact they did succeed/dominate, they would have done
something to address reliablity, that would be quite good,
so I would think they should deserve any success.
Seems like this is a "what-if" question that's not worth
worrying about. If it's so easy, someone should just go
do it. It's not. So, why worry?
If it's, say, a US citizen in a DX country that gives you the Q, does
that make
it less interesting? If not, then why is a remote there less interesting?
The lack of human presence nearer the equipment?
-kevin
ke6rad
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