Topband: Question...

[Marsh Stewart]

Well, you probably can operate a remote station somewhere via the Internet
to work the next DXpedition to a rare-one, and/or North Korea if/when they
get on the air. The QSO should count for your 160M total - but ONLY for your
160M DXCC total from where the transmitter, receiver, and antennas are
located - clearly NOT from your remote control point in VE3.

Marsh, KA5M
     

-----Original Message-----
From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Eddy
Swynar
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 6:35 AM
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Topband: Question...

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
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