[CQ-Contest] Fwd: Expeditions remote

[Paul O'Kane]

On 07/01/2026 13:29, Martin Sellschopp wrote:
> I just read  a note about the KP 5 Expedition. Will that be the future,
> that a team dumps a container on a rare DXCC location and then operates it
> remote from home ? That is certainly a technical challenge but is that
> still in the spirit of a DXCC ?

Of course it's in the spirit of DXCC, isn't it simply 
station-to-station communications over RF?

After all, we all know and accept that telephone contacts take place 
between telephone instruments.  Who needs people?

On the other hand, not a single QSO with KP5 will be possible without 
100% dependence on Starlink for each and every contact. Since amateur 
radio QSOs, by definition (my definition), are person-to-person, 
ham-band-RF-all-the-way contacts with no dependence on commercial 
communications utilities, it follows that all contacts with KP5 will be 
something other than ham radio  - I'd suggest "semi-professional 
hybrid-communications" contacts.

Apparently, DXCC and contest sponsors are happy to 
accept semi-professional hybrid-communications contacts as being 
equivalent, in all respects, to amateur radio QSOs.  They should think 
again.

73,
Paul EI5DI

ps - The race is on!  Who will be the first to qualify for the DXCC 10k 
Challenge?
http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2013-06/msg00261.html