[CQ-Contest] Remote Site Contesting Rules

[Eric Hilding]

(Also applies to When is a QSO not a QSO?)

HA!  I finally picked up my mail from the P.O. Box in town a while ago, and had to chuckle when I saw an article in the new April QST:

"Remote Control of the Amateur Station" (Sub-Titles - "Operate Your Amateur Radio Station From Anywhere In The World" -and- "Making use of available software and systems to do the job."). 

So, if one does NOT have a "remote station" in the context of what we've been discussing here, but rather a "home base station" that the operator chooses to operate in a Contest remotely while sitting in a motel room while on an out of town business trip that spans the Contest weekend), are folks still going to complain about this?

When power transistor rigs came out, I'm sure many with tube rigs probably condemned this "new technology" as being UN-Amateur Radio as well.

Let's just all do our own thing, single-location remote site or single home station, whatever floats our personal boats, until the "Distributed Contesting" issue wreaks havoc among the ranks and on the bands ;-(

73 & Enjoy Contesting Fun Always...while you still have the opportunity to do so...in whatever way falls within the Contest Rules...

Rick, K6VVA