[CQ-Contest] SO2R REMOTE CONTESTING

[Richard Thorne]

Joe, W4TV, this note is not directed towards you, but you have, as well 
as a few others have struck a cord with me, ie the operator should be in 
the 500m circle.

OK folks, as one who has put a lot of time and effort into building a 
reliable remote station for dxing and contesting, I'm starting to take 
this personal.  Some of you are leaning towards rule changes that would 
exclude my operating, not gonna happen on my watch.

I haven't heard one single argument why I shouldn't operate remote be it 
7 miles up the road from my home, like I currently do, or a station in 
Italy, which can easily be done.  Sounds more like, if I can't put up a 
decent antenna and be competitive, either can you.

If the transmitter and receiver and antennas are within a 500m circle, 
they're in a 500m circle. Period.  Don't give me the lame "but your not 
there" stuff.    I guarantee you I've put just as much work, if not 
more, in my station than you have in yours, due to the technological 
hurdles I have had to jump.  

This lame argument against remote operations,  ranks right up there with 
the past arguments that only station owners should operate their own 
stations and not have guest ops, because the guest op doesn't have a 
station. 

And Joe, don't take this personal, even though I am, but if I have to be 
there, I guess theres no sense in having my Microham band decoder in 
line for auto antenna switching.  Heck since I'd be in front of the 
radio I could make the simple arm movement to manually change my old 
heath kit antenna switch ;-) .  Or there would be no sense in having my 
Idiom press rs-232 rotor control, I'd be there to turn the rotor. 

So in summary, if some one can put a remote station on Aruba and operate 
it from home in the USA, more power to them. 

And for the record I'm not working you the person, I'm working your 
transmitter location for points, a multiplier or a DXCC entity.  I could 
careless where your sitting.

Flame suite on, but you best have yours on too.

Rich - N5ZC



Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> Rick, 
>
>   
>> However, "in an abundance of caution" I personally want to 
>> get a firm, iron-clad answer to this from the Contest Sponsors.
>>     
>
> Like you, I would want a firm ruling from the contest sponsors 
> and a decision on what constitutes "all equipment" particularly 
> as technology has the potential to change the nature of the 
> transceiver as we currently know it. 
>
> My personal prejudices are that the operator should also be 
> within the "circle" but that may not be practical for some 
> people.  However, in any case, the operator should be within 
> the same entity (or contest multiplier).  Thus an operator 
> in the US should not be permitted to run a DX contest remotely 
> from the Caribbean or other "DX" location ... an operator in 
> Florida should not do Sweepstakes remotely from VY1 ... even 
> an operator in Ohio should not contest remotely from WV. 
>
> Still, those "political" issues are separate from the technology 
> questions. 
>
> 73, 
>
>    ... Joe, W4TV 
>  
>
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