Topband: The Remote Question..

[Dave Heil]

Bill,

There was no competition among those who walked to school, no matter 
what the distance.  There were no awards, annual listings, pins, 
certificates, plaques or such.

The internet is akin to telephones and cable television more than to 
amateur radio.  If you're making your way to Topband DXCC with stations 
on both coasts and receivers/antennas on various continents, you are not 
operating in the spirit of the awards.

73,

Dave Heil K8MN

On 7/12/2015 3:00 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> There really is a difference among all the people who walked to school
> and back every school day for 12 years or so. Some of them lived across
> the street and others lived ten miles away, uphill both ways <evil
> grin>. I do see that somebody who did all of a DX challenge from their
> home location has more bragging rights than somebody who did parts of it
> over the internet.
>
> This message was done in part with the internet. Doing it all by radio
> would be *more* fun.
>
> 73,
>
> Bill  KU8H