"...These are individual awards. How you get them is your business, how I get
mine is my business..."
Excellent ! May I inject 39 Cents'-worth ? [allowing for inflation]
That seems to me to sum it up, totally, completely, utterly, and entirely.
There must be 75 dB (give or take a few "S" points) of difference between the
poorest penny-whistle [goober-whistle] rig and those of some of the mighty
contesters whose rigs rival commercial & military installations. To worry
about remote operation in view of this as rather like "straining at a gnat &
swallowing a camel".
If I can get away with a set of forgeries (or even fivegeries) it's between me,
the ARRL & my conscience. It would be like cheating at patience [solitaire].
The ARRL refused a perfectly valid card with my first DXCC application - one
from a nearby EU country [entity] which I'd worked dozens of times. I didn't
ask why. It was all free in those days last century, so straining at gnats is
nothing new. I still need 18 on 1.8 to reach 100; I'm not going to do it,
but I'll try.
All's fair in love and war, love it or hate it !
73 de Mort, SV5/G2JL
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