Topband: Brave New World

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

Really?

Many remotes use K3's with one of the radios being another K3 or scaled 
back version of a K3.  You still sit at the radio and turn the knobs.

Remote radio has been around a lot longer than many think.  It was only 
for the very well off to do it.

The internet is simply an extension of the mic cord and headphones.

How does this affect you anyway?  Did K4VV bother you in the contest.  
If the article was never written you would have never known.

I would love to build a contest station in the Caribbean and operate it 
from home and save the round trip air fare, if it were all legal between 
countries etc.

What exactly did any remote operator do that was wrong?

You na sayers sound like a bunch of old ninnies who find things to 
complain about.

Remote radio opens up many doors to people that otherwise could not be 
involved with HF amateur radio.  It keeps people on the air that want to 
move to townhouses or might have to move into assist living centers but 
want to stay on the air.  Are these not great reason for remote radio or 
if you have a stroke and have to go to a nursing home you people would 
just rather the see guy go off the air.    That guy might be you very 
soon.  Think about it.

Mike W0MU

On 2/25/2015 3:24 PM, Cecil wrote:
> Sounds like phone sex to me....not my bag.
>
> You can hang up a picture of whatever partner you like and call them your significant other...just can't substitute for being there.
>
> Next big thing will be to drop a package station on Scarborough Reef and have a remote team operate it and call it a DXpedition and hand out DXCC credit for it....
>
> Time to join AMSAT...
>
> Cecil
> K5DL
>
> Sent using recycled electrons.
>
>> On Feb 25, 2015, at 4:10 PM, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed,2/25/2015 1:05 PM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
>>> The whole notion---to me, at any rate---compromises the very essence & the "...joie de vivre!" of operating on 160-meters, don't you think...? And to imagine that one of the "perpetrators" in all this is actually exuberant about his accomplishment...
>> I STRONGLY disagree. Exactly how is this different from those same operators driving several hours (of flying) to someone's super-station, like W3LPL, K3LR, W8JI, NQ4I, N0NI, W0AIH, WB9Z, K9CT, W7RN, N6RO, VE3EJ, K1TTT, KH6LC, KL7RA, and hundreds of others around the world, to do a multi-multi? The vast majority of the EU stations we work in contests are club stations.
>>
>> Except for the guy who built the station, and maybe someone who helps to maintain it, they're all hired guns. As I see it, the internet simply saves those guys a lot of gas money.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
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