Topband: Europrean SDR on 160M

[Roger D Johnson]

William Q Meeker wrote:
> It seems to me (and a number of others that I have talked to) that 
> there needs to be an explicit DXCC rule that says that for a DXCC 
> contact to be valid, the transmitter and receiver, for both stations, 
> must be within some relatively small distance of each other (perhaps 
> 50 to 75 miles). Policing the rule (an issue raised by Bill Moore) 
> would be difficult or impossible, but that is beside the point.
>
> Some of these kinds of issues (but not this specific one) were 
> studied by the ARRL DXAC last year and their report is posted on the 
> ARRL webpage. See
>
>     http://www.arrl.org/announce/reports-2008/july/DXAC_Special_Report.pdf
>
> I have not heard of any proposed actions coming out of this report. 
> Perhaps others can enlighten us.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill
> K0KT
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I found the report somewhat disingenuous in that it mentions "fairness" 
and the
"propagation advantage" as considerations.  Where is the "fairness" in a W1
whose company sends him to Oregon for several years. This allows him to
work the rare Pacific DX and have it count towards his DXCC? Does he not
have a considerable "propagation advantage" working the Pacific?  The lack
of a reasonable distance limit gives a great advantage to a few while 
penalizing
most of us.

73, Roger
 

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