"...These are individual awards. How you get them is your business, how I get mine is my business..."
Excellent ! May I inject 39 Cents'-worth ? [allowing for inflation] That seems to me to sum it up, totally, completely, utterly, and entirely. There must be 75 dB (give or take a few "S" points) of difference between the poorest penny-whistle [goober-whistle] rig and those of some of the mighty contesters whose rigs rival commercial & military installations. To worry about remote operation in view of this as rather like "straining at a gnat & swallowing a camel". If I can get away with a set of forgeries (or even fivegeries) it's between me, the ARRL & my conscience. It would be like cheating at patience [solitaire]. The ARRL refused a perfectly valid card with my first DXCC application - one from a nearby EU country [entity] which I'd worked dozens of times. I didn't ask why. It was all free in those days last century, so straining at gnats is nothing new. I still need 18 on 1.8 to reach 100; I'm not going to do it, but I'll try. All's fair in love and war, love it or hate it ! 73 de Mort, SV5/G2JL _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
