On 07/01/2026 13:29, Martin Sellschopp wrote:
I just read a note about the KP 5 Expedition. Will that be the future,
that a team dumps a container on a rare DXCC location and then operates it
remote from home ? That is certainly a technical challenge but is that
still in the spirit of a DXCC ?
Of course it's in the spirit of DXCC, isn't it simply
station-to-station communications over RF?
After all, we all know and accept that telephone contacts take place
between telephone instruments. Who needs people?
On the other hand, not a single QSO with KP5 will be possible without
100% dependence on Starlink for each and every contact. Since amateur
radio QSOs, by definition (my definition), are person-to-person,
ham-band-RF-all-the-way contacts with no dependence on commercial
communications utilities, it follows that all contacts with KP5 will be
something other than ham radio - I'd suggest "semi-professional
hybrid-communications" contacts.
Apparently, DXCC and contest sponsors are happy to
accept semi-professional hybrid-communications contacts as being
equivalent, in all respects, to amateur radio QSOs. They should think
again.
73,
Paul EI5DI
ps - The race is on! Who will be the first to qualify for the DXCC 10k
Challenge?
http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2013-06/msg00261.html
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