[CQ-Contest] Remote op & Who is this guy, really?

[Glenn Wyant]

A scientist goes to Bouvet
He is a good friend , who normally lives  1 block
from your house.

He sets up a remote at his home , and operates from Bouvet.

You work him on 160 meters...

So did you work " Bouvet " or a neighbor ?


Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 11:02 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Remote op & Who is this guy, really?


> Friends,
>
>
> I had to take this opportunity after the comment about the end of rare 
> sections...
>
>
> I think all this remote work, trying to help J. etc is interesting and 
> wonderful and I really don't mean to be negative. But...what is the point 
> of a "rare section" if you don't have to be there to operate? Doesn't this 
> in many ways, miss the point of a multiplier?
>
>
> As an analogous example, what if a DXpedition were to put up an automated 
> station in Bouvet, and operate it from home? Bouvet becomes common. What 
> have we really achieved? HF propagation to Bouvet was never really the 
> point, was it?
>
>
> I'm not a Luddite, I get the interest, good intentions, and technical 
> achievement in all this. It sounds fun! But as a test to see if I was just 
> narrow-minded or a fuddy-duddy, I ran this remote idea past a few non-hams 
> who know just enough about contesting to understand. The comments I 
> received were:
>
>
> - That's bogus
>
> - That's cheating
>
> - You guys have lost your way
>
>
> Can't say I disagree. Food for thought. Not to stop such operations, 
> progress will always move forward, but to try and recognize what it all 
> means and establish limits.
>
>
> 73,
>
> Drew K3PA
>
> -----Original message-----
> From:Art Boyars <artboyars at gmail.com>
> Sent:Wed 11-04-2015 09:21 am
> Subject:[CQ-Contest] Who is this guy, really?
> To:CQ-Contest Reflector <cq-contest at contesting.com>;
>
> W1VE said: "Thanks to a lot of work from J and the remote team, Hal, W1NN,
> will operate [VY1AAA] SOHP in November SS via remote from his home in 
> Ohio."
>
> OK, so "Hal, W1NN" will operate a NT station from his home in Ohio.
>
> But for the past many contests "Hal" has purportedly operated "W1NN" in
> Ohio ... remotely from Japan. (You could look it up.)
>
> Can we believe that "Hal" is really where he says he is, or that the
> station is where it claims to be, or even who he says he is?
>
> (In case I'm too subtle, that was a joke.)
>
> And Gerry will be (actually, physically) at K2LE in VT. Could that be
> competition for W1SJ?
>
> Are we about to see the end of rare Sections in SS? (Not a joke.)
>
> 73, Art K3KU
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