I asked this question a few years ago and was referred to the clear DXCC rule 9.
9. All stations must be contacted from the same DXCC entity. The location of any station shall be defined as the location of the transmitter. For the purposes of this award, remote operating points must be located within the same DXCC entity as the transmitter and receiver. This seems to state that the operator and TX/RX must also be in the same DXCC entity. 73, Gerry VE6LB/VA6XDX DXCC Field Checker-Southern Alberta VE/VA6 QSL Bureau Team (403) 251-0384 ve...@telus.net http://www.qsl.net/ve6lb/ From: William Q Meeker Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 4:03 PM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: Web-based SDRs and DXCC [was Web SDR's and 'Cheating'] I am glad to see this subject return to the topband reflector. Hard to believe, but contrary to what Tree has said, my investigations indicate that the present DXCC rules would, unfortunately, permit the use of remote Internet-connected SDRs in another continent for purposes of making DXCC contacts. In my posting here last year, http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/Topband/2010-01/msg00009.html I outlined my correspondence with the DXCC desk on the subject. Perhaps if more people make the point to the DXCC desk, their ARRL reps (on the DXAC and at the Section level) we can get the rules to be changed (or clarified) so that this kind of activity is clearly out of bounds. The (somewhat related) DXAC report to which I referred in the posting has been moved or removed from the ARRL webpages. If anyone wants to get a copy, send email to me. 73, Bill K0KT At 14:00 2/11/2011, you wrote: >From: Tree <t...@kkn.net> >CC: "topband@contesting.com" <topband@contesting.com> >Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:17:17 -0600 >Subject: Re: Topband: Web SDR's and 'Cheating' > ext/plain; charset="us-ascii" >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 07:21:26PM -0800, Bob Kupps wrote: > > > What is the ethical position on this, it sure seems wrong to me > >What country are the people really "working" with their radio? > >There is not a two way exchange of information with someone in a >single country - therefore - no QSO. The DX station is making >these QSOs not count. If caught - they will not be accepted for >DXCC. > >Next step - put the transmitter there too and make it even easier!! > >Boo hiss!! > >Tree N6TR William Q. Meeker Department of Statistics 2109 Snedecor Hall Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50011 Phone: 515-294-5336 Fax: 515-294-4040 Home Fax: 515-232-1323 www.public.iastate.edu/~wqmeeker _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK