Topband: Use of Remote Receivers During 160 Meter Contests

[Mark van Wijk, PA5MW]

QSL !

Congratulations on the achieved remote RX/TX station setup.


I tend to regard my 23x28ft backyard quite a challenge too for Topband, 
nevertheless found my way too..

73 Mark, PA5MW


-----Original Message----- 
From: Cecil
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 1:31 PM
To: W7RH
Cc: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Use of Remote Receivers During 160 Meter Contests

Excellent application of a remote station....I see no problem with that.

Cecil
K5DL

Sent using recycled electrons.

> On Mar 17, 2015, at 10:34 PM, W7RH <midnight18 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> I almost gave up Amateur Radio living and working here in Las Vegas, where 
> the average subdivision lot is 4000sqft or less. Not to mention CC&Rs. A 
> city acre these days is just shy of $1-million.
>
> My station is network controlled to my Arizona ranch property 200 miles 
> away. I make it very clear that all contacts are from Arizona and not from 
> Nevada on QRZ. It's been that way for ten years. Any real contest efforts 
> are made on site. There have been times when weather prohibited me from 
> getting into the remote site safely. In that case I bag the test and make 
> a few random remote QSOs. All operation is from the remote and meets the 
> radius rules for receivers and transmitter.
>
>
> Quote Mike W0MU,
>
> "You need to hear my transmitter from your location and I need to hear
> yours from mine.
>
> I am a proponent of remote radio where ALL of the receiving and
> transmitting is done from the same SINGLE remote site with the same
> distance radius for that equipment to be in."
>
> Seems to me this is a fair and equitable solution. Enforceable, probably 
> not.
>
> -- 
> W7RH DM35OS
>
> Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm 
> not sure about the former.
>        Albert Einstein
>
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