[CQ-Contest] VY1AAA @ VY1JA will be QRV for CW SS...

[W0MU]

This only seems to matter to you Paul.

It is legal by the rules.  SS NA domestic contest anyway and doesn't 
affect you at all.

We understand you don't like it.  You have been saying it for years, yet 
the rules clearly allow for it.

End of story.

W0MU


On 11/3/2015 10:24 AM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
> On 02/11/2015 19:06, Gerry Hull wrote:
>
>> Thanks to a lot of work from J and the remote team, Hal, W1NN, will 
>> operate
>> SOHP in November SS via remote from his home in Ohio.
>
> The fact that something can be done does not
> necessarily mean there is merit in doing it.
> And the fact that something is being done by
> radio amateurs does not necessarily mean it is
> amateur radio.
>
> W1NN, "operating" from his home in Ohio, will be no
> different to the millions of people networked by a
> commercial communications utility at that time, and
> fully dependent on it all at times.
>
> In SS, W1NN will communicate with other people who
> are radio amateurs.  In his case, however, the
> signal path between W1NN and anyone he works will
> be from Ohio to the Yukon to wherever.
>
> The portion of the signal path from Ohio to the
> Yukon is internet-hosted, and the complete signal
> path is a composite of internet and amateur-band
> RF.  What has been lost, or abandoned, is the
> communications independence that used to set us
> apart from all others - we might as well use the
> phone.
>
> Why does this matter?  Well, as radio amateurs we
> use amateur radio to communicate with one another.
> If HOW we communicate no longer matters, we have no
> right to describe ourselves as radio amateurs - we
> are no different from anyone else.
>
> It seems to me that remote contesting, as promoted
> by W1VE and others, serves only to make a mockery
> of amateur radio in general and amateur-radio
> contesting in particular.
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
>
>
>
>
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