The contacts were not made via "the internet", they were made using a radio controlled over the internet.
I operate my home station every day using a computer in my office from 70 miles away over the internet. It's no different than sitting in front of the equipment. Glenn WB5TUF -----Original Message----- >From: "Dave Blaschke, w5un" <w...@wt.net> >Sent: Feb 25, 2015 3:26 PM >To: Eddy Swynar <deswy...@xplornet.ca>, topband@contesting.com >Subject: Re: Topband: Brave New World > >Notice how ARRL is endorsing all of this. read that first paragraph, >especially: "The scattered K3TN team worked *via the Internet *through >the station of Jack Hammett, K4VV". I thought our hobby was about radio, >not internet. > >On 2/25/2015 9:05 PM, Eddy Swynar wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I am really & truly surprised that nobody here has raised so much as even an >> eyebrow at this story: >> >> http://www.arrl.org/news/no-one-in-the-shack-as-station-logs-4200-contacts-in-arrl-dx-cw-contest >> >> The whole notion---to me, at any rate---compromises the very essence & the >> "...joie de vivre!" of operating on 160-meters, don't you think...? And to >> imagine that one of the "perpetrators" in all this is actually exuberant >> about his accomplishment... >> >> “...'No one was in the K4VV shack for the entire contest!' said Mike L*, >> W0**, who took part in the contest via K4** from his own shack in >> Virginia..." >> >> This too is "progress"...? Oh well, I guess maybe it is. Time marches on, >> things evolve, things "de-evolve," & nothing stays quite the same. >> >> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ >> _________________ >> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband >> > >_________________ >Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband