[CQ-Contest] RDXC updated FAQ - Remote operation

[kzerohb at gmail.com]

I have a non-amateur 802.11(n) wireless network in my home.

Is it permissible for me to run a RTTY contest from a laptop in my favorite 
recliner while watching a football game over this network?

73, de Hans, K0HB/K7

-----Original Message----- 
From: Paul O'Kane
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2011 1:52 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] RDXC updated FAQ - Remote operation

On 26/02/2011 16:45, Richard Thorne wrote:

> Whats your opinion on remote control operation?

It has no place in amateur radio contesting because

!. It makes a mockery of the 500-metre rule
    for equipment and antennas.

2. It tends to involve the replacement, by the
    internet, of amateur-band RF in a portion of
    the signal path between the operators concerned.

Amateur radio is, by definition, independent of
all other communications modes and communications
technologies.  When a "QSO" cannot take place
without the continued availability of other such
modes or technologies, it is no longer an amateur
radio QSO - it becomes a hybrid communications
QSO.

73,
Paul EI5DI







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