[CQ-Contest] Legalities and ethics of international remote operation?

[Randy Thompson K5ZD]

This is going to be a challenge for contesting and DXing in the future.
DXpeditions have been reporting these "unusual" QSOs for a few years now.
We are now beginning to see them in contesting.  

There were a few of these reported in CQWW this year.  As we identify them,
we will have no choice but to mark the callsigns as "pirate stations".  This
will remove them from counting for contact credit by anyone they work.  It
is unfortunate as it may result in some lost multipliers, but they are not
legitimate QSOs.

Randy, K5ZD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Barry
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 6:28 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Legalities and ethics of international remote
> operation?
> 
> On Saturday afternoon, during the 10m contest, I was surprised to be
> called by a very loud YO4.  Condx were such that the band was not open to
> central/eastern EU here in Colorado at that time.  Given the signal
> strength, I presume the YO4 was using a remote on the east coast of the
> US.
> 
> What are the legalities of such an operation?  Should he be signing
> W/YO4xxx?  Off the top of my head, I don't know if YO is a part of CEPT,
> but if not, what kind of licensing permission, if any, is required for
> such an operation?
> 
> Where does this type of operation fall in terms of contest rules and
> ethics?
> 
> Barry W2UP
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