[CQ-Contest] Remote Site Contesting Rules

[Zack Widup]

This is my opinion FWIW.  You can operate a single station from somewhere 
else and it's fine with me.  If you can arrange to put a station in some 
place like EA9 or OH0, license it and then sit in the USA and operate it 
I'll be more than happy to work you in a contest.  There's no unfair 
advantage to having one station with all the actual equipment and 
antennas inside the 500 ft (or 500 m) circle in some other place.

It's when you have a station in one part of the country or world and use 
an additional station (even just a receive site) in another area with 
different propagation and paths to more stations that it gets unfair.  
And it appears to me to be against the rules, too.

Outside of a contest this could be an interesting experience.  I've played 
around with the various DX Tuners in other countries that you can use via 
Internet to listen in on shortwave. But that wasn't in a contest and in 
fact I wasn't even listening to ham transmissions.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Professional Home Inspections wrote:

> I am contesting, right now as I type this with my remote station.
> I am using my station, which is now 1 1/2 miles from the main road in NNY
> and the road is totally closed due to snow and ice. Should I have to walk
> there to operate, or stay home in Rochester, watch the snow melt and contest
> in the BARTG contest?
> 
> This is a FUN hobby, and I continue to have fun.
> 
> Paul K2DB              
> 
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