Jim,
Thanks, I have done the same.
You can give your opinion on this subject by contacting your ARRL division
director.
Click on this webpage, select your director, and send an email !
http://www.arrl.org/divisions <http://www.arrl.org/divisions>
73,
Bob
K6UJ
> On Jul 11, 2015, at 12:49 PM, Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri,7/10/2015 7:09 AM, Tony K1AMF wrote:
>> Please e-mail N2YBB or other ARRL board members directly with any questions
>> or comments.
>
> Here's what I wrote to my Director, and to a few others who I know. My
> Subject line was "DXCC Rules and Remote Operation."
>
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>
> In advance of a meeting where I expect this issue to be discussed, I want to
> let you know how I feel about DXCC Rules and Remote Operation.
>
> I am strongly opposed to the use of a remote station to give the operator a
> geographical advantage over his licensed location for geographically based
> awards like DXCC, WAS, VUCC. I also object to the use of rented stations for
> this purpose, no matter where they are located. I have no objection to an
> operator using a remote station that he has built with or without the
> assistance of others within a few hundred miles of his home QTH.
>
> I am also strongly opposed to the current DXCC Rules that allow credit for
> QSOs made from a location anywhere in the continental United States. I favor
> instead a rule similar to that for VUCC, which allows credit for QSOs made no
> more than 200 km apart. For DXCC, 700 miles might be a more appropriate
> distance. The existing rule greatly cheapens the award.
>
> Having operated first from WV, then from Chicago, and now from Northern
> California, I can testify that working DX on any band is very different
> between W8/W9 and W6. I did not start over moving from WV to Chicago, but I
> did when moving to CA 9 years ago. I would have felt that I was cheating if I
> had not.
>
> I have 135 countries confirmed on 160M and 201 on 80M since moving to W6 nine
> years ago. Under the current rules, I could almost certainly add 50 countries
> to each of those bands by renting a station in W1 for any contest weekend.
> That stinks.
>
> 73, Jim Brown K9YC
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