Topband: Question...

[Eddy Swynar]

Hi Guys,

My appreciation of computers in the Ham shack, I'm afraid, is limited to placing the contest QSOs that I might make into Cabrillo format , post-contest, for benefit of to-day's contest sponsors---and I was dragged, kicking & screaming all the way, into that stage, several years ago...!

I don't know why, but my "...spidey senses" always go on "high alert" whenever radio & computers are mentioned in the same subject. 

No doubt that accounts for my ignorance as to to-day's Amateur scene...so I have an ignorant question, from an otherwise ignorant Ham: somebody please bear with me, & kindly give me the condensed "Coles Notes" version in your reply...

Specifically, suppose I want to work the (imaginary, of course) upcoming DX-pedition to North Korea that is being mounted as a distraction to basketball, by Dennis Rodman & a few of his well-heeled Ham friends. I would dearly LOVE to log the operation on 160-meters CW---but I understand that their topband aerial will be limited to a very simple random 130' length of wire, thrown out a hotel upper storey window. Question: can I link myself via the internet to some remote "...rent-a-station" in, say, nearby Japan, and use that station to QSO them, all the while using my callsign of VE3CUI...?

Like I said earlier, it's an ignorant question, from an ignorant Ham---but I would like to know the answer, just the same...!

Many thanks, &

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ