[CQ-Contest] Packet is the root of all evil but...

[sawyered at earthlink.net]

This topic has always facinated me.  For a few reasons.  The main one is this:

If a remote station exists in KP4.  All Transmitters and antennas are connected by wires within a 500m circle or property boundries.  An operator holds license KP4XYZ and operates this station remotely all weekend from his/her Denver, CO home.  What rule exactly is broken?

I have heard that for CW contesting, remote control through the internet is not "real time" enough to be effective.  Can anyone who has actually tried this, comment?

Understand, this is not discussing remote listening posts or multiplier stations all over the world (those are outside the property boundries and 500m circle).  This is talking about remotely operating a station that if the operator sat down in the chair "on site" would be perfectly legal.

I have heard of a number of stations used effectively remotely as DXing stations on SSB but never one contested or using CW.  Not saying no-one has.  You just don't hear about it.

Ed  N1UR