[CQ-Contest] Cheating with Technology

[Zack Widup]

I always thought that the location should be where the transmitter is, no 
matter where the operator is.

What if I went on vacation in the Bahamas and decided to work SS from a 
remote station in Illinois? Couldn't I do that and send IL as my section?

OTOH, what if I were at home and wanted to operate a remote station in the 
Bahamas in a DX contest?  Wouldn't I use C6 in my call?

We didn't have these discussions 20 years ago ...
:-)

73, Zack W9SZ

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Richard Thorne wrote:

> I maintain that your both wrong.
>
> Rich - N5ZC
>
>
>
> Paul O'Kane wrote:
>> Hal Offutt asked
>>
>>
>>>> Why does it matter where the operator is?
>>>>
>>
>> Joe Subich, W4TV answered
>>
>>
>>> The operator is an integral part of the station and without the
>>> operator ... there is no contact.
>>>
>>
>> I'm with Joe on this one.
>>
>> Why not compare a telephone call to a QSO.
>>
>> Everyone accepts that a telephone call is a person-to-person
>> event.  In the same way, a QSO is person-to-person event,
>> with amateur-band RF as the medium.  I maintain that QSOs
>> are diminished to the extent that the path between the
>> operators is anything other than RF.
>>
>> For practical purposes, there has to be a "wired" path at
>> each end of a QSO - from the antenna to the operator.
>> It seems to me that the current 500-metre "standard" for
>> contesting hardware is big enough to include operators.
>>
>> 73,
>> Paul EI5DI