[CQ-Contest] Remote Site Contesting Rules - Getting out of hand

[Paul J. Piercey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ken Alexander
> Sent: March 19, 2007 23:46
> To: vo1he at rac.ca; 'Ev Tupis'; CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Remote Site Contesting Rules - 
> Getting out of hand
> 
> --- "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey at nl.rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> > My point is that when I make contact with a station, even in a 
> > contest, it's the operator that I am working, not the equipment.
> > Isn't it the operator who
> > is licenced; not the equipment? When you call someone on 
> the phone, it 
> > is ultimately the person on the other end that matters, not 
> the myriad 
> > of switching equipment and relays that the signal has gone 
> through to 
> > get there and where that is located. When I send an e-mail to my 
> > neighbour on another ISP, it goes through the network to 
> Montreal and 
> > back. Should I consider him to be in Montreal?
> 
> Sorry, no sale Paul.  If I had a ham friend in KH6 who let me 
> operate his station remotely in the next CQWW you'd have to 
> turn your antenna towards Hawaii, you'd have to wait until 
> propagation favours Hawaii from your QTH, and you'd have to 
> pick the band(s) that would favour propagation to Hawaii.  At 
> the end of the contest, if you'd worked me you would have 
> worked KH6, not VE3.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Ken Alexander, VE3HLS
> (who hopes to operate live from VO1 some day!)

Hi Ken,

If you work a guy in Bermuda on 10M FM through a repeater in the CN Tower,
did you actually worked Ontario or Bermuda?

73 -- Paul VO1HE