It has been written by Joe, and others in the same vein:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv@subich.com>
To: "'Eric Hilding'" <dx35@hilding.com>; <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Cc: <nccc@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] SO2R REMOTE CONTESTING
> My personal prejudices are that the operator should also be
> within the "circle" but that may not be practical for some
> people. However, in any case, the operator should be within
> the same entity (or contest multiplier). Thus an operator
> in the US should not be permitted to run a DX contest remotely
> from the Caribbean or other "DX" location ... an operator in
> Florida should not do Sweepstakes remotely from VY1 ... even
> an operator in Ohio should not contest remotely from WV.
>
> Still, those "political" issues are separate from the technology
> questions.
>
> 73,
>
> ... Joe, W4TV
It occurs to me that requiring the remote operator to be in the same
multiplier entity might have unexpected ramifications. Would this mean that
in a VHF/UHF conttest the remote op would have to be in the same grid
square? If counties are the multiplier does he have to be in the same
county? For county hunters, would a contact be invalid if the remote op
were in the next county? What about the case where a grid boundary cuts
through a county-- the usual case, in other words? Would the remote station
be forced to be built within the portion of the resident county which is
also within the same grid so as to cover all possible cases? How about
IOTA? Has to be on the same island? (I don't know why, but someone might
want to and figure out how to put a remote station on Matagorda Island off
the Texas coast.)
I am not a VHF/UHFer, nor am I contemplating a near future remote station.
But as I read the posts, it seems to me that from the perspective of being
an operator who works Aruba as DX or in a contest that I do not care where
the operator of that station is actually sitting, I worked Aruba if that is
legitimately where the station is located. I wonder if a friend phoned to
tell me I could contact Aruba, might I expect him to tell me:
1. "Aruba is on the air"
2. "A station in Aruba is on the air"
or 3. "An operator in Aruba is on the air"?
If a Mars Lander sends back pictures under remote control from Earth, are
the pictures less validly from Mars because there was no human present?
I don't know the answers, but these seem to me to be valid questions before
a hasty precedent either way is set.
73 to all,
Rusty, na5tr
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