Topband: Remote now DXCC??

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

What bad thing happened?  A bunch of guys made contacts.  Nothing bad 
happened.

A sick station owner gets to build a station and have people operate it.

In this case nothing bad happened.  Why turn this into a witch hunt?  
Everything was LEGAL!

Mike W0MU

On 2/27/2015 2:07 PM, Doug Renwick wrote:
> 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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