[CQ-Contest] third-party communications in DX contests (was:KU1CW location)

[kzerohb at gmail.com]

OK, here’s my take as it applied to US stations.

If you cut through all the verbiage, a “remote operator” is directly equivalent to the “third party” in a phone patch (remember those?).

When you look at it in that light, the “remote operator” cannot transmit a message to a station in a country whose administration has not made “third party” arrangements with the USA.  This is waived IF THE REMOTE OPERATOR IS ELIGIBLE TO BE A CONTROL OPERATOR.

So the test becomes “Is the remote operator eligible to be a control operator at my station?”  If he passes that test, then his location is unimportant, and he can freely work anyone in a contest.  If he is NOT eligible to be a control operator, then his operation in CQWW would be problematic.

73, de Hans, KØHB
"Just a boy and his radio"™


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