[CQ-Contest] Xtreme category, catch 22

[Pete Smith]

I tend to agree with you, Ranko.  Under the new ARRL rule on Skimmer 
use, anyone who wants to have a Skimmer off his transmitting site has 
to make it publicly available (presumably by publicizing the IP 
address).  That could make it very easy for anyone, Xtreme category 
or not, to use a remote receiver.  Say, for example, that DL5?? runs 
a Skimmer at his QTH  for his local contest club some kilometers 
away.  He publicizes the IP address, and anyone, anywhere in the 
world, could use it to copy Europeans calling CQ (on 160 for example) 
who are too weak to copy at their own QTHs.

73, Pete N4ZR



At 10:02 AM 6/16/2009, 4O3A Ranko wrote:
>If fun for majority should be keeping old fashion way, then old categories
>are unchanged and will be more popular. .
>
>New Extreme is logical step forward in 21th century. I guess, it will not be
>a lot of participants, but it giving nice opportunity for improvements and
>legality.
>I am only strongly disagreed with this part in rules:
>
>*Remote receiving sites may be located anywhere........*
>
>With this rule, nice idea of widening area for improvements and technology
>will be bury with no sense remote receiving. All real technology
>improvements can't fight with just a simple remote receiver close to
>correspondence site. Really, it looks like a mistake of rules creator and
>has to be reconsidering. It is not improvement at all. It looks much more
>like contesting holocaust...hahaha
>
>73
>Ranko