Topband: Question...

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

Tim,

The whole call would be - VE3XZ/JA drone. 

This was my attempt at satire. I am referring to "remote operation" as "drone operation"

Who knows? Maybe the IARU will authorize the "drone" suffix.

Mike N2MS 


----- Original Message -----
From: Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com>
To: mstangelo at comcast.net
Cc: topBand List <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:58:01 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: Topband: Question...

I don't think signing "VE3XZ/JA" is good enough for remote through Japan.
The ones I know who do such stuff, have a special "foreigner in JA" call
that starts with 7J, and there's even a special block of callsigns for
"club of foreigners in JA".

The truly groundbreaking remote operations I know of, are guys who travel
to JA or BY and operate their USA station remote from there. They have had
very nice QEX and NCJ articles about their efforts. My opinion of folks who
can put together a remotely-controlled station and run a contest with it,
is very high.

Tim N3QE

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:22 PM, <mstangelo at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> Eddy,
>
> This is fine as long as you sign VE3XZ/JA drone.
>
> Mike N2MS
>
>
> On 02/27/2015 07:34 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
> > 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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