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Re: Topband: Use of Remote Receivers During 160 Meter Contests

To: W7RH <midnight18@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Topband: Use of Remote Receivers During 160 Meter Contests
From: Cecil <chacuff@cableone.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 07:31:26 -0500
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Excellent application of a remote station....I see no problem with that.

Cecil
K5DL

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> On Mar 17, 2015, at 10:34 PM, W7RH <midnight18@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> I almost gave up Amateur Radio living and working here in Las Vegas, where 
> the average subdivision lot is 4000sqft or less. Not to mention CC&Rs. A city 
> acre these days is just shy of $1-million.
> 
> My station is network controlled to my Arizona ranch property 200 miles away. 
> I make it very clear that all contacts are from Arizona and not from Nevada 
> on QRZ. It's been that way for ten years. Any real contest efforts are made 
> on site. There have been times when weather prohibited me from getting into 
> the remote site safely. In that case I bag the test and make a few random 
> remote QSOs. All operation is from the remote and meets the radius rules for 
> receivers and transmitter.
> 
> 
> Quote Mike W0MU,
> 
> "You need to hear my transmitter from your location and I need to hear
> yours from mine.
> 
> I am a proponent of remote radio where ALL of the receiving and
> transmitting is done from the same SINGLE remote site with the same
> distance radius for that equipment to be in."
> 
> Seems to me this is a fair and equitable solution. Enforceable, probably not.
> 
> -- 
> W7RH DM35OS
> 
> Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not 
> sure about the former.
>        Albert Einstein
> 
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