I guess I can see both sides on this issue. There is a group of about a dozen Swiss hams that formed a club and set up a 60-foot dish for eme. In Europe having sufficient land and room for one's own super-antenna farm is just about impossible. But the site is not commercial; the hams built the dish and club house and maintain all. But the members can operate eme remotely from their house via the internet.
Many living in apartments, condos, HOA, etc. cannot put up the station they might desire so if they can afford a remote property to set up their station it makes a good compromise. As I see it the remote-control qth would not be the official transmitter qth for contests & awards or other records. That would be the location that transmitter/antennas are installed. I am lucky to have 2-3/4 acres with no restrictions, covenants, zoning, or city ordinances. If I want to build it, I do. No permits. No inspections. No city "fathers"! My property is even bounded on one side by a private airstrip/road. I just talked to my neighbor who owns the 3800-foot strip with my plans to put up a tower within 80-feet to the side of the runway and he said "no problem". Of course the spruce trees are about the same height and he has to stay above them, too. FAA is not involved as it is not a public airstrip. Hams are experimenting with wifi on 2.4 and 5.6 GHz and legally able to run more ERP than the commercial services. A wifi link for remote control of a station is a possibility. It might only require a patch antenna in the window to connect with the remote transmitter site. What is needed are ham radios with remote control interface. 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 50-1.1kw?, 144-1.4kw, 432-QRT, 1296-?, 3400-? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] Coming Soon - "Kits made by KL7UW" ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
