[CQ-Contest] Remote Site Contesting Rules

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

I have not kept up with the entire thread but I would hope that a competitor
would only be allowed to use one remote station.  Maybe this would be
deserving of it's own classification.  I would not care if a ham in
California remoted to an east coast station.  Hopefully that same station
would not be using any equipment that he might have in Cali at the same
time.  Difficult to police.

Mike W0MU 

 

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Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 11:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Remote Site Contesting Rules


Interesting discussion about remote stations.  

I fully agree with the idea that as long as only the operator is moved out
of the equation and all TX and RX stuff is done in the same place that there
is no conflict with the intent of the rules.

The Stew Perry contest actually added some clarification to this because we
knew of at least one competitor who was using a remote RX station that was
about 60 km from his TX location.  

"All transmitting and receiving antennas used must be within 100 km of each
other."

This allows the use of a remote station - as long as it wasn't too far from
your TX station to have different propagation.  

In my current situation, I am very capable of transmitting with a good
signal on 160 meters, but as the urban growth starts to swallow up my QTH,
it will be very difficult to have the same receiving performance I enjoy now
during the next sunspot minimum.  It is very likely that I will invest in
some kind of remote receiving setup.  I have a prototype that I am using now
out in the barn.  It is a K2 using the Ham Radio Deluxe software which runs
on both sides of the internet connection and hooks up to the serial port on
the radio and has a very nice user interface on the operator end.

I feel as long as this station is located in Oregon it will be okay for my
general DX QSOs.  When I work a DX station, they are still working 100
percent Oregon - so it will count for WAS.  If I had a remote station on the
east coast, it would be a lot harder to say what state he really worked.

I may not be able to use the remote RX setup in all of the contests however,
which is really too bad - since it will enable me to work more of the weaker
stations.

N6RT operated some of the ARRL DX CW contest using my station while he was
sitting home in Orange County.  The technology is here now to do this very
easily (even without radios that have LAN connectors).  

Some small tweaks of the rules will probably be required as more of us start
doing this.

Tree N6TR
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