Considering a DXCC plaque with a full set of endorsements, plus $1.99, will get
you a cup of coffee… I don’t understand the attraction in cheating. It doesn’t
get you a free trip to a WRTC. It doesn’t get you a brand new IC-7760. It only
gets you bragging rights, rights you know are false.
SMH.
73, kelly, ve4xt
> On Jan 20, 2026, at 5:55 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>
> I’ve been a ham since 1978, but I realize many of you have been licensed
> longer (or some, shorter).
> The first time I “realized” that hams cheated at DXing was in the late 1980’s
> on 6M. (call me naïve)
>
> For a cpl yrs there was a 7-land station (in a CN/CM grid iirc), that had
> some kind of remote (via 56k twisted pair I am guessing) and he would
> transmit from somewhere in W1 land (we think Maine, but not sure as we didn’t
> always hear him) and he’d work the 6M EU openings that VE1YX, VE1ZZ(sk),
> myself, etc would get on F2.
>
> It blew my mind that people could be like that, but after a few times I
> decided that they’re only cheating themselves and if they wanted to rack up
> the country count or whatever, it was on them, not me. They are the ones that
> have to sleep at night and look at the guy in the mirror the next morning.
>
> Some years back there were 1 or maybe 2 I-stations that I seemed to work in
> some of the 160M contests. One time a QSO happened at HIGH NOON in Italy
> and they were 20/9 here while I was looking for W7’s and KH6’s on greyline/SR
> here in NB. Since I knew it was completely impossible, I didn’t log them.
>
> Nowadays I just log whatever and move on. I barely do any DXing these days.
> (can’t be bothered) and most of what I do is the larger contests. I just log
> what they send and don’t worry if they are cheating with power, remote or
> anything else. It still bothers me, but much less than before.
>
> It's like when I see a motorcycle go past my house at 100MPH.
>
> It’s on them.
>
> 73 de Mike VE9AA
> ================
>
> This actually doesn't belong on the contest reflector, but to answer your
> question, no and no.
>
> A recently deceased officer in ARI (the Italian amateur radio
> organization), frequently remoted into his house in VP2V to work Pacific
> DXpeditions.
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 9:06 AM Barry W2UP <w2up.co@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm sure this isn't a new problem, but it's pretty obvious with the current
>> KP5 operation.
>>
>> Listening to the pileups, I've heard a number of European callsigns calling
>> the KP5 on the high bands during the USA evening, with loud signals here in
>> Colorado, when the band is not open to Europe. Obviously they are using
>> remotes in N. America.
>>
>> Clearly this destroys the integrity of the DXCC program. Does anyone
>> care? Is anything being done to address it?
>>
>> Barry W2UP
>
> Mike - Keswick Ridge, NB, Canada
>
>
>
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