Topband: Remotes

[Steve Harrison]

On 2/5/2024 10:11 AM, David Raymond wrote:
> We've seen the same thing the past few days with people using RHR to
> work the current 7O2WX operation.  Of course, I'm sure they will be
> claiming it for their DXCC, which at one time was the world's most
> prestigious and sought after amateur radio award. Between remote
> operation and digital contacts not having their own category, the once
> coveted DXCC award has become essentially irrelevant and meaningless. 
> Although solutions are comparatively simple, unfortunately, no one at
> HQ seems interested in fixing it.

There's also the little problem of LoTW, which has basically eliminated
the need for printed QSLs. Now, when you have a visitor to your shack,
you get to amaze them by showing them a spreadsheet: "Here's what
countries of the world I've talked with this week!" instead of they
seeing and ahhhing over the pretty, printed QSL cards hanging on your
walls with all those different country names printed on them. Just three
years ago, my 98-yr-old father loved to go through the cards I'd
accumulated just from my short operation at his own HOA-ruled,
gated-community home with the stealth wire antler snaking out of my
bedroom window up into a nearby pine tree. He'd read every word the DX
wrote on the card, sometimes spending a minute carefully examining a card.

Steve, K0XP