[CQ-Contest] Remote

[N1MM]

The opponents don't want some well-heeled guy buying an oceanfront lot, 
building a big contest station and beating the locals.  People don't 
like carpetbaggers.  That's about it.

73,
Tom - N1MM
On 6/18/2013 11:49 AM, Jim Rhodes wrote:
> Why is this such a bitter pill for some people to swallow? The station is
> in one location and that is the location that counts, That is where the RF
> comes from and goes to. When you add the hardware to operate remote you are
> also adding lag time into the mix and complexity that must be maintained on
> BOTH ends. You are putting yourself at an operating disadvantage to maybe
> get a scoring advantage. Or in my case just to get on the air for the
> contest at all. I spend half of my time away from home working including
> every other weekend. So the "purists" want to tell me I have to miss those
> contests totally rather than get on the air and put out some Q's. Thanks a
> lot.
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Nothing has been said which persuades me that it is "bad" for the operator
>> to be remote from the station, whether the station is across town, across
>> the state, across the continent, or across an ocean from the operator.
>>
>> I am not a rich man.  Some day I may be reduced to a home without space
>> for antennas to contest.  Remote operation may be my only way to enjoy ham
>> radio.  Why do you care where the radio is located, so long as the contest
>> entry reflects that location and the pertinent rules of the regulatory
>> body(ies) are observed.
>>
>> 73, de Hans, K0HB
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/17/2013 10:35:14 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> f5vhj at orange.fr writes:
>>
>> Although the rich big boys would not like this rule, there should be a rule
>> that says:
>> “The remote operator must be the same DXCC county as the operating
>> location of the transmitters and receivers.”
>>
>>
>> Short and sweet. Not  ambiguous as to both elements, where Joe is and where
>> the RF is transmitted and  received.
>>
>> This will prevent Joe Blow from “renting”  or using a  station in a
>> favourable location without having to have gone through the grief,  travel
>> time,
>> and money that would be expended otherwise.
>> Radio Sport should  not be based on how much money or how clever someone
>> can be to do less then the  other person in order to compete.
>>
>> One person spend the time and energy to go to P4 and operates, a second
>> person is remote into a station on P4.
>>
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