So if I live in Oregon and decide to fly to Maine to guest operate a station in
person is that unfair? I guess I really don't see the difference of being
somewhere in person and operating a station remotely. JeffSent from my Verizon,
Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com> Date:
10/6/20 7:52 AM (GMT-05:00) To: cq-contest@contesting.com Subject: Re:
[CQ-Contest] Distributed Contesting On 05/10/2020 22:42, Stan Zawrotny wrote: >
We think it is appropriate for all contests to be consistent in how they >
level the field for their participants. Don't you think that an Oregon >
station working remotely out of Maine has a leg up over other west coast >
stations in the Worked All Europe Contests?You'll have to live with it. With
remote operation the RF between the stations remains the same. Therefore, it
doesn't matter where the remote operator is. That's the bottom line - we all
have to get used to it.As K1ZZ said, “Now the location of the operator doesn’t
matter; the operator could be on the far side of the Moon if he or she could
figure out how to remotely control a station on land back on Earth from
there.”http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-board-okays-changes-to-dxcc-program-vhf-and-above-contesting-rules
> I am in favor of amateurs using innovation and technology. However, those >
with an advantage, such as HP vs LP vs QRP or multi-op vs single-op, are >
better off in a separate category where they can compete with like >
capabilities.The advantage lies in having remote capability. If this
occasionally seems unfair, then having a separate category for remotes could
make it fairer. > Why can't the WWROF take a leadership role in making
recommendations to > overhaul the category structure used by the hundreds of
smaller contest > sponsors (and the few larger ones)?K5ZD, a Director of
WWROF, said earlier in this thread - "I don't think this is something that
WWROF can assist with."73,Paul
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