Topband: CQWW160 Remote receiver rule

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

The original DXCC location rule was ridiculous and discriminatory. I was 
arbitrary base FCC call areas which are essentially diluted by waiving 
the portable slash bar requirement.

I remember having to start over three times as W0VXO in Minnesota and 
Iowa.  But when I crossed the Mississippi River from Davenport to Rock 
Island to attend college I had to start all over again as K9GGT as I 
lived at Home in Rock Island.  But traveling several hundred miles to  
Minneapolis to finish at the University of Minnesota I got to use my 
Iowa credits.  My first major employment after college was at Gates 
Radio Co. in Quincy, Illinois so I set up shop in across the river in 
Maywood, MO to avoid losing my W0 DXCC credits.  But then I started the 
whole process over again in 1968 from the Virgin Islands first as 
W0VXO/KV4 and the as KV4FZ. That made sense but the others didn't. The 
irony of this is that when I spent a few months in Durango, CO where 
working JA's on top band was easy with an inverted L . I was a different 
world on 160.  But look at the land mass for the W0 call area and 
compare that to W3 and W2 were some hams were frozen at their starting 
point and had to travel hundreds of miles each day to work just to 
prevent losing their DXCC credits.    It was a strange rule and ignored 
the persons (constitutional) right to travel. Ironically a Russian ham 
could be anywhere from just East of the Ural Mountains and move several 
thousand miles  all the way to the Bering Straits without a penalty as 
long as long as he was inside the DXCC "country" of Asiatic Russia.


Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
On 1/29/2015 2:52 PM, Tom W8JI wrote:
> I remember when W2EQS/W9NFC had to start his 160 DXCC over from zero 
> from Indiana because he moved from NJ to Indiana. Today, he could move 
> from California to Maine and keep his totals.