Jim, Thanks, I have done the same.
You can give your opinion on this subject by contacting your ARRL division director. Click on this webpage, select your director, and send an email ! http://www.arrl.org/divisions <http://www.arrl.org/divisions> 73, Bob K6UJ > On Jul 11, 2015, at 12:49 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: > > On Fri,7/10/2015 7:09 AM, Tony K1AMF wrote: >> Please e-mail N2YBB or other ARRL board members directly with any questions >> or comments. > > Here's what I wrote to my Director, and to a few others who I know. My > Subject line was "DXCC Rules and Remote Operation." > > = = = = = > > In advance of a meeting where I expect this issue to be discussed, I want to > let you know how I feel about DXCC Rules and Remote Operation. > > I am strongly opposed to the use of a remote station to give the operator a > geographical advantage over his licensed location for geographically based > awards like DXCC, WAS, VUCC. I also object to the use of rented stations for > this purpose, no matter where they are located. I have no objection to an > operator using a remote station that he has built with or without the > assistance of others within a few hundred miles of his home QTH. > > I am also strongly opposed to the current DXCC Rules that allow credit for > QSOs made from a location anywhere in the continental United States. I favor > instead a rule similar to that for VUCC, which allows credit for QSOs made no > more than 200 km apart. For DXCC, 700 miles might be a more appropriate > distance. The existing rule greatly cheapens the award. > > Having operated first from WV, then from Chicago, and now from Northern > California, I can testify that working DX on any band is very different > between W8/W9 and W6. I did not start over moving from WV to Chicago, but I > did when moving to CA 9 years ago. I would have felt that I was cheating if I > had not. > > I have 135 countries confirmed on 160M and 201 on 80M since moving to W6 nine > years ago. Under the current rules, I could almost certainly add 50 countries > to each of those bands by renting a station in W1 for any contest weekend. > That stinks. > > 73, Jim Brown K9YC > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband