[CQ-Contest] Remote Site Contesting Rules

[Michael Tope]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kd4d at comcast.net>

>> How about the following:
>>
>> "All transmitting antennas must be within a 500 meter circle, and all
>> receiving antennas must be within a 500 meter circle. The centers
>> of the respective transmitting and receiving 500 meter circles can be
>> no more than 100 miles apart."
>>
>> This sort of rule would allow for operations a'la N7JW (transmit at
>> home, receive remote), but would prohibit the entrant from receiving
>> at two different locations that are widely (or even not so widely
>> separated). BTW, the above rules say absolutely nothing about
>> where the operator sits since the only thing that really counts are
>> how far apart the antennas are.
>>
>> 73, Mike W4EF...............................
>
> Now, the serious M/M's (and SO2R folks) have a much easier way to
> eliminate intra-station interference - just create a receiving site 50
> miles away and you can hear a LOT better on the same and other
> bands while you are transmitting.  This would be a HUGE advantage
> for single-band and M/M stations.
>
> This would probably make a remote receiving site NECESSARY
> for serious SO2R operations as well.
>
> 73,
>
> Mark, KD4D


That's an extremely good point, Mark, which I hadn't really considered.
Your spot on that it would allow you to CQ and listen on the same
band with zero "self QRM". If you imposed the rule that you had to do
all listening from 1 circle and all the transmitting from the other, then it
would create an interesting conundrum. Say you were W3LPL. Would
you put all your stacked yagis at the receiving location, or at the 
transmitting
location? Or would you essentially build two complete N-tower W3LPL's -
one local for transmitting and one remote for receiving? What would the
control/data pipe between the two antenna farms look like?

Talk about unintended consequences.

The more constrained rule set which would fix this problem would be to
allow for one 500 meter circle with all antennas inside it and the
operator/rigs anywhere its convenient. This would still allow/encourage
remote operation, but it would preclude the N7JW model where you
TX at the local site where mains power is available and run the receivers
at a quiet remote site from solar.

73 Mike, W4EF.............................................