Topband: Remote now DXCC??

[Michael Tope]

Doug,

I don't think using remotes in different countries would be permitted 
even under the most liberal interpretation of the new ARRL DXCC rules. 
As far as I know, for example, using the RHR site in Sicily would 
require me to sign IT9/W4EF. If I were to simply sign W4EF, I would 
likely not be in compliance with Sicilian telecommunications law. If I 
tried to submit a QSL made out to IT9/W4EF, for my US DXCC, it would not 
count since clearly the contact was not made from a transmitter located 
in the continental United States. Thus, to make use of a remote in a 
different country to gain an advantage in the ARRL awards program, 
requires more than an ethical breach. It requires breaking the law since 
I would have to sign W4EF when using the IT9 remote to pull it off. .

73 Mike W4EF...

On 2/27/2015 1:07 PM, Doug Renwick wrote:
> -*** 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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