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Re: Topband: Brave New World

To: "jim@audiosystemsgroup.com" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Brave New World
From: Cecil <chacuff@cableone.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:24:37 -0600
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Sounds like phone sex to me....not my bag.

You can hang up a picture of whatever partner you like and call them your 
significant other...just can't substitute for being there.

Next big thing will be to drop a package station on Scarborough Reef and have a 
remote team operate it and call it a DXpedition and hand out DXCC credit for 
it....

Time to join AMSAT...

Cecil
K5DL

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> On Feb 25, 2015, at 4:10 PM, Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed,2/25/2015 1:05 PM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
>> The whole notion---to me, at any rate---compromises the very essence & the 
>> "...joie de vivre!" of operating on 160-meters, don't you think...? And to 
>> imagine that one of the "perpetrators" in all this is actually exuberant 
>> about his accomplishment...
> 
> I STRONGLY disagree. Exactly how is this different from those same operators 
> driving several hours (of flying) to someone's super-station, like W3LPL, 
> K3LR, W8JI, NQ4I, N0NI, W0AIH, WB9Z, K9CT, W7RN, N6RO, VE3EJ, K1TTT, KH6LC, 
> KL7RA, and hundreds of others around the world, to do a multi-multi? The vast 
> majority of the EU stations we work in contests are club stations.
> 
> Except for the guy who built the station, and maybe someone who helps to 
> maintain it, they're all hired guns. As I see it, the internet simply saves 
> those guys a lot of gas money.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
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