I wonder sometimes if DXCC has become an oxymoron of magnitude similar
to NTS? When originally conceived, actually contacting 100 "countries"
was a huge endeavor. Even making transoceanic contacts between the
largest of stations was very difficult. Today's world is so very very
different. When So. Sudan showed up, a new-ish ham said to me, "I've
never seen such pileups!" I told him, "ATNO for everyone and those who
sit at the top of the list with 'all' of them need to keep their seats."
After I worked BS7H, I showed my wife a photo of W6RGG at one of the
positions. She said, "You count that rock as a country?" I started to
explain and then passed, the rock is claimed by more than one country of
course and I'd already been through it with her over VP6DI.
As I said when I started this, I just wondered recently while in the shower.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 3/23/2019 6:52 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 3/23/2019 2:34 PM, ab2tc wrote:
But if I work Bouvet using this remote, can I really claim
DXCC credit for myself for it?
DXCC rules say that you can count a QSO made from any STATION location
(that is, where RF is transmitted and received,) anywhere in the lower
48 states.
It would seem exceptionally unfair. Doesn't
ARRL have a rule for as how far you can move from place to place and
still
claim accumulated DXCC credits?
Yep.
I find this highly troubling.
Me too. When I moved from Chicago to NorCal 12 years ago I started
over with DXCC. There's a guy who takes pride in being at/near the top
of DXCC on 160M, but he started in CO, then moved to NC. I strongly
approve of operating remotely from a station that is close to you,
especially if you built the station! I view with contempt those who
would use remote operation of a station much much closer to DX than
their own, or even rent that station and travel to it, and count QSOs
made from that station for DXCC.
73, Jim K9YC
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