Topband: Remote now DXCC??

[Doug Renwick]

Yes you are probably right that protesting won't change a thing.  But should
that mean that when something negative like this happens, that voicing an
objection is not considered?  Should we just shrug and say 'whatever'.  Some
do say whatever.  Yes cheating has been around for some time.  The question
is where do you set your standards?  High or low.  Yes it is just a hobby,
but how it plays affects us in other ways.
Doug 

-----Original Message-----

> *** Let me help out here.  I have gone on record in past postings that I
> personally do NOT have a problem with remote operations in the vicinity of
> their home station.  The problem is people using remotes in different
> countries and on different sides of the continent to inflate their
> standings.
> 
> Doug

As to this specific thing; If someone is in another country close to 
rare DX, visits a ham and uses their station and then uses their own 
home call when making the easy Q, that's cheating. This kind of 
cheating has been possible all along, it may make it easier with 
today's technology. 

I never worked Don Miller but I did work Romeo, both DXers were 
notorious for supposedly claiming to be where they weren't & slews of 
people worked them feeling they worked a legit operation. I worked 
Romeo in 91 as XY0RR and got his QSL & it counted for DXCC. Once I 
heard the flap about his operation, I didn't feel I fairly worked 
Myanmar until I got confirmation from XZ1J for a Q in 2013.

People have been claiming DXCC credit unfairly and giving it for 
years. RHR will not make anything new happen. I just sent something 
offlist to one of us and I agree with what I said... "As to people 
not doing the right thing with a tool, that's been happening since 
those apes hit each other with femurs in the opening scene in the 
movie 2001".

Or as the Who said in "We won't get fooled again: "Meet the new Boss, 
same as the old Boss".

People have been cooking the books for years & someone always will 
be; hasn't stopped me from having fun for 35+ years.

73,

Gary
KA1J


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