It depends on what you're doing with it. If you're using it for individual contests/awards/etc., I feel like setting up your own station is required for it to "count".
If you're doing it for the fun of it, I feel like borrowing someone else's is fine. I'll throw in a related question: what's the right way to identify or disclose when you're borrowing someone else's station? I've got 15 W into a random wire in a noisy city QTH, but my girlfriend one state over (but same FCC callsign digit) has 100 W into a proper 40m dipole in a quiet rural QTH. Cheers, Julie On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 8:14 PM Andy Durbin <a.dur...@msn.com> wrote: > ""Dialing for DX" is not amateur radio!!!" > > Do you know how many DX entities I have worked or confirmed? If you knew > would you care? Does the fact that that I may have worked some DX using > other stations make less DX available for you to work? > > I regard my DX count as a personal achievement. I choose to work all my > DX from "my" station but it's a very long time since I could claim that I > built everything in my station and even then I didn't fabricate the > bottles, resistors and capacitors. Most of those came from equipment I had > cannibalized. > > I have a good friend who will happily go to a good station in town to work > Bouvet if it is ever activated again. If he works Bouvet good luck to > him. I don't want to work Bouvet unless it is from my station. That's my > choice and it doesn't impact anyone else. > > I don't care what station anyone else operates. I do care if they operate > a remote station and declare that they are somewhere else. Those lies do > impact me if I'm gullible enough to a attempt a QSO. > > Andy, k3wyc > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to ju...@juliatuttle.net > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
