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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