Really?
Many remotes use K3's with one of the radios being another K3 or scaled
back version of a K3. You still sit at the radio and turn the knobs.
Remote radio has been around a lot longer than many think. It was only
for the very well off to do it.
The internet is simply an extension of the mic cord and headphones.
How does this affect you anyway? Did K4VV bother you in the contest.
If the article was never written you would have never known.
I would love to build a contest station in the Caribbean and operate it
from home and save the round trip air fare, if it were all legal between
countries etc.
What exactly did any remote operator do that was wrong?
You na sayers sound like a bunch of old ninnies who find things to
complain about.
Remote radio opens up many doors to people that otherwise could not be
involved with HF amateur radio. It keeps people on the air that want to
move to townhouses or might have to move into assist living centers but
want to stay on the air. Are these not great reason for remote radio or
if you have a stroke and have to go to a nursing home you people would
just rather the see guy go off the air. That guy might be you very
soon. Think about it.
Mike W0MU
On 2/25/2015 3:24 PM, Cecil wrote:
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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