[CQ-Contest] Remote Contesting

[Tom Taormina]

This is starting to sound like the discussions of 30 years ago about 
packet that led to SO-A class entries.

Part of the future of our hobby is symbiosis with computers and the 
Internet. I suggest that remote stations, and even remote stations 
for hire, are going to be part of the landscape of contesting within 
a few years. We had best look forward to a new set of categories to 
accommodate SO, MS, M2, MM remote operating. Think of how inventive 
we could get if we made it a wide-open category, i.e., no geographic 
boundaries on the remote locations! What a hoot that might be. 
Imagine the rates you could have running a remote in EA9 from an 
apartment in Sheboygan?

Maybe it's just me, but I always look at what is and think about what 
is possible. The status quo is for old fogies with no vision.

Tom Taormina, K5RC
Virginia City Nevada USA
Home of NACHO - W7RN and RANN - K7RC
Web Site: http://k5rc.cc/   FOC 1760