Topband: Fwd: Re: KH1/KH7Z TopBand Ops Brief

[Dave Sharred]

I have no axe to grind, I wasn't QRV. Hever,  Nick does raise a good point.
First, if it is correct there is a small possibility of propagain around Sunset for Serbia and Ukraine, 20 minute window to Baker Is.   However, it's not really the dx season for EU to Pacific.
With great respect the Baker Is. Topband system was compromised,  a 43ft fat vertical,  so an EU QSO must be optimistic at best. 
If the EU guys had fantastic antennas, they may just be able to make the trip, with lots more power potentially too.   To me, if you are using a favourable located remote RX,  not in EU, that would not be a good QSO in my ethics.
Further, since these things are available, it's not in my ethics to use remote tx/rx outside of your home country, to claim dx contacts. 
Lastly, from the dx end, it's impossible to tell if the QSO is remote assisted or not, however, if it's outside of a real opening time, if I was the dx, I would delete the qso from my log as dubious
73 Dave G3NKC  (op at MD4K, PZ5K and others)

-------- Original message --------
From: Dave Sharred <g3nkc at yahoo.co.uk> 
Date: 14/07/2018  10:12  (GMT+00:00) 
To: uy0zg <uy0zg at mksat.net>, Peter Voelpel <dj7ww at t-online.de> 
Cc: topband at contesting.com 
Subject: Re: Topband: KH1/KH7Z TopBand Ops Brief 


    



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