----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux@earthlink.net>
> Clearly, this isn't a legal issue. It's also, I think, a perfectly valid
> area of experimentation for hams to develop remote operation
> techniques. I have no idea what the various contesting rule bodies think
> about it (well, field day requires everything within 1000 ft, but I don't
> know about the others).
>
> But, as I said above, it's somehow unsettling.
>
> What's to stop Mike Tope (W4EF) from leasing a few acres in the Salton
> Sea,
> setting up a remote 160m base and ruling the band, operating from the
> comfort of his house in Tujunga, hundreds of miles away?
Mrs. Tope!!
> Impressive
> technically, but somehow not in the same class as his adventures going
> there in person, setting up a portable station in the dust and wind.
>
BTW, in this particular case, remote operation would offer one more
advantage - it would put me hundreds of miles from the rotten egg
smell the permeates the Salton Sea :):)
73 de Mike, W4EF.......................
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