At the risk of jumping to conclusions - based upon the number of e-mails
with this subject that I have been deleting without reading - I think a
mountain is being made of a molehill.
Using common sense - I think many of the questions that are being raised
have logical simple answers.
1. Does it matter how far away an operator is from a remote controlled
station? Answer - as long as RX/TX is all at the remote and otherwise
meet the distance/ownership requirements - NO.
Yeah - you can get technical on my and tell me that some part of my
control setup is part of the RX (like if I used an audio filter) - but
really - the issue is where the antennas are. If you are only bringing
audio over to your control point - I don't anyone is really going to
thing you are getting some unfair advantage listening to it with a
250 millisecond delay and not total frequency response.
2. Can I operate a contest where my station is in a different DXCC country?
YES - as long as it is all legal. I see the radio operating taking place
in the country where the radios are in. You could be in a country you
don't have a license for and still operate - since you aren't using a
radio in that country.
3. Would #2 count for DXCC? (My answer - who cares) - better answer - the
DXCC people need to figure that out. I would say it is fine for a contest
however.
The one obvious question that I think needs to be thought about is what to
do when you have a remote receiver and it is located 50, 100 miles from
your TX. This is something that might require some new category - or else
people can just enter as check logs.
So - in summary - all of you guys who have gone through the trouble to allow
remote control of your otherwise legal single op station - just relax and
keep using it. Having done this myself - I fully appreciate the technical
challenges you are dealing with. I don't think the current technology really
allows you to have a world class competitive score - but if you did manage
to beat me in a contest - my hat is off to you.
I plan to operate the CQ WW CW contest remote control - single band 160. I
will sound like a lid with the latency on the internet, but it will enable
me to get on during the contest and hand out some QSOs and maybe even work
a new country or two where I wouldn't have been able to otherwise (and meet
my wife's requirement to be down at her folks house during Thanksgiving).
I will have no problem submiting my log as a single-op entry from Oregon.
Tree N6TR
tree@kkn.net
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