To be clear, people should
be able to use remotes or any other station withing the borders of
their country. I could have houses on all coasts and be legal
under the new proposal yet not be able to use remotes in the same
places is just stupid. It give all the advantages back those with
lots of money. That is not what the hobby is about. Those like
W3LPL and many others, who have spent millions on their stations
already have their advantage. Are these the same people that want
to deny others that same ability with remotes?
W0MU
On 8/7/2020 1:00 PM, w2ttt wrote:
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Bruce,
NJ3K,
As
W0MU noted, you could use a remote in an area that is reasonably
close to your former residence.
I
still like the 500 mile circle.
So
even if you retired to the UK for all those NHS benefits, you
could still operate from your current region from an RF
perspective.
Vy 73,
Gordon
Beattie, W2TTT
201.314.6964
On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 2:47 PM -0400,
"W0MU" <w0mu@...>
wrote:
Remotes are
allowing those in nursing homes or retirement homes the
opportunity to play radio and takes up no more space than
an Ipad or computer! This is a great and wonderful
thing.
W0MU
On 8/7/2020 12:29 PM, bmanning
wrote:
I have been working DX for 40+ years. What if life
circumstances caused me to move 1000 miles away from my
home. Do I need to start over? As the rules are now, no,
but if the rules are changed then what?
Bruce NJ3K
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 18:07:08 +0000 (UTC), w2ttt <w2ttt@...>
wrote:
W4IPC,
I don't think folks should do that
either.
Pick an area for your efforts and
then operate and improve your skills. Want to try it
somewhere else, great, two different DXCCs. NP. Each
has value, but they should not be mixed. As I noted
in another comment: Compare the optjons of a US Ham
in Miami vs. one in Bermuda. Pick a spot, a physical
spot. I don't care where you live, but I care where
your radio and antenna are.
I've evolved that far, but now we
have guys traveling physically and virtually across
broad areas to gain an advantage that dillutes the
integrity of the programs because they change their
location and mix the contacts from different station
localities. We have even seen cases where the
operator used two different stations, very widely
separated beyond reasonable limits to receive the DX
that was uncopyable at the transmitting station. That
makes no sense.
Again, pick a spot, operate,
compete, grow and enjoy!
If the ARRL or other groups need to
evolve their awards prorgrams, then they should treat
it as a business opportunity to certify multiple DXCCs
for a given operator's chosen locations. Very cool to
have an East Coast, West Coast and a Gulf Coast DXCC!
How about one from 8P6, too? If there are remote
stations that an operator can call "home" even if one
of many, that is VERY COOL!
Separately, for some contests,
remote stations should be in their own class, much
like Multi-Multi, Multi-Single, Single, Rover,
Portable, etc. are now. It.would depend.on the
contest.
Vy 73,
Gordon Beattie, W2TTT
201.314.6964
On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 1:39 PM
-0400, "Jack Roberts - KD9OPV" <kd9opv@...>
wrote:
Now just pick
one station or compact circle of stations for
your awards and call that "home" for the
purpose of awards. That is exciting and
reasonable and maintains the integrity of the
awards program.
You see, that would be fine but very frequently
my 'favorite' station is unavailable because
someone else is using it. This makes it so that
I have to chose a different station in a
different location. Picking one station or a
compact circle is practically impossible with
services with RHR. In theory, your solution
would work, but in practice, it just won't work
73, KD9OPV
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