[CQ-Contest] DXCC cheating using out-of-country remotes

[Steve London]

This actually doesn't belong on the contest reflector, but to answer your
question, no and no.

A recently deceased officer in ARI (the Italian amateur radio
organization), frequently remoted into his house in VP2V to work Pacific
DXpeditions.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 9:06 AM Barry W2UP <w2up.co at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm sure this isn't a new problem, but it's pretty obvious with the current
> KP5 operation.
>
> Listening to the pileups, I've heard a number of European callsigns calling
> the KP5 on the high bands during the USA evening, with loud signals here in
> Colorado, when the band is not open to Europe.  Obviously they are using
> remotes in N. America.
>
> Clearly this destroys the integrity of the DXCC program.  Does anyone
> care?  Is anything being done to address it?
>
> Barry W2UP
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