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Subject: Re: Topband: Question...
From: mstangelo@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:22:22 +0000 (UTC)
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Eddy,

This is fine as long as you sign VE3XZ/JA drone.

Mike N2MS


On 02/27/2015 07:34 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> My appreciation of computers in the Ham shack, I'm afraid, is limited to 
> placing the contest QSOs that I might make into Cabrillo format , 
> post-contest, for benefit of to-day's contest sponsors---and I was dragged, 
> kicking & screaming all the way, into that stage, several years ago...!
>
> I don't know why, but my "...spidey senses" always go on "high alert" 
> whenever radio & computers are mentioned in the same subject.
>
> No doubt that accounts for my ignorance as to to-day's Amateur scene...so I 
> have an ignorant question, from an otherwise ignorant Ham: somebody please 
> bear with me, & kindly give me the condensed "Coles Notes" version in your 
> reply...
>
> Specifically, suppose I want to work the (imaginary, of course) upcoming 
> DX-pedition to North Korea that is being mounted as a distraction to 
> basketball, by Dennis Rodman & a few of his well-heeled Ham friends. I would 
> dearly LOVE to log the operation on 160-meters CW---but I understand that 
> their topband aerial will be limited to a very simple random 130' length of 
> wire, thrown out a hotel upper storey window. Question: can I link myself via 
> the internet to some remote "...rent-a-station" in, say, nearby Japan, and 
> use that station to QSO them, all the while using my callsign of VE3CUI...?
>
> Like I said earlier, it's an ignorant question, from an ignorant Ham---but I 
> would like to know the answer, just the same...!
>
> Many thanks, &
>
> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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