The "antennas connected by wire" rule was made to prevent dialing up a remote
receiver, in say Germany, to help you, in the USA, to better hear the
Europeans calling you. At the time the rule was written a very few people,
mainly government/military types, had access to this sort of situation.
Today it is more available via internet. But even if everyone could use such
remote receivers, IMHO it constitutes a gross abuse of contesting spirit.
I believe this may have been added before the question of what constituted
"property" in a Communist country arose, from which the 500 meter circle
originated.
I don't have problems when the entire station is remoted a relatively short
distance, as is the case with N5ZC.
This does however lead to a question that technologically is now
realistically possible: remote operation of an entire DX station via remote
control from back home in the USA, or wherever. If I operate VK0MR or 5A1MR
by connecting to a Kachina and antennas sitting in VK0 or 5A while I am
sitting at my computer in Cleveland, am I a DX station? Can I run the
pileups from VK0 until the band goes dead and then QSY to working them from
5A? Can I connect into 9M6 to give by club buddies or multi-multi team a new
multiplier?
Ain't technology and ethics a dynamite combination?
73 - Jim K8MR
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