Topband: Remote Operation

[m.r.]

To me the remote operation ethics have always been clear, and still are.

It makes absolutely NO difference where the operator is sitting.  The contact is between 
the two physical stations.

Any station - remotely controlled or not - must identify legally under the rules of the 
county in which the RF transmitter and receiver are located.  This includes properly 
identifying the zone, state, section, grid square, whatever the current activity requires. 
When it is just the country, that must also be clear.

In this case, if OE1AZS was using the W4ABC station, he could legally identify in two 
ways, Just W4ABC, or W4/OE1AZS.  It is NOT legal for a transmitter in the W4 district of 
the US to be identified ONLY as OE1AZS.

It does not matter if the person, OE1AZS, is sitting at the knobs at W4ABC, or is sitting 
at home controlling the W4ABC station by remote control.

But, folks who can, will cheat just to be first in a log. They really only cheat 
themselves, to the DX station, its just one more contact  Claming the contact for DXCC or 
any other kind of award credit is cheating.  Again, the person most cheated is the 
individual who submits the contact for the award.

Robin Critchell
WA6CDR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Renwick" <ve5ra at sasktel.net>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 20:13
Subject: Topband: Remote Operation


> Listening to K1N on 7023 and to stations calling this evening.  OE1AZS was
> calling and boy was he loud here.  Obviously not calling from Europe and he
> wasn't signing portable.  My beam was pointed at K1N and the eu stations he
> was working were weak off the side of the beam except for OE1AZS.  What
> would be his ethics limits?
>
> Doug
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