Topband: Brave New World

[Jim Brown]

On Thu,2/26/2015 10:41 AM, Charlie wrote:
> The serious DX chasers, especially Topband, are faced with a dilemma now.   Anyone  who wants to pay the $$ can be at the head of the line for a rare one by remoting to a world class station, rather than using his own equipment.  Many will elect to do that.  I will not be one of them.

Nor will I.  I agree entirely with your analysis, Charlie. I view the 
use of a remote station far from my QTH for that sort of advantage as 
cheating, even though ARRL considers it OK. It is exactly this sort of 
abuse that gives remote operation a bad name.

 From NorCal, I had not a snowball's chance in hell of working EP6T on 
topband -- heck, except for contest stations islands like EA8 and CT3, I 
haven't heard EU or AF on topband for several years. I did work them on 
one band, I think it was 15M.

73, Jim K9YC