Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 08:57:26 -0800 From: Steve Harrison <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Topband: Remotes
>This growing practice of hiring a remote in another call area far from >your own QTH, then working wild and exotic DX while preventing deserving >locals operating from their home stations from working same DX, is >abominable and just plain unethical. I lost what respect I had for a >couple people I heard work 9M2AX this morning when I heard them do that. >I heard another guy do that last week that I've only just barely heard >on 160 in the past across the country; he was at least two hours beyond >his own sunrise, so obviously hiring a remote, probably that big one up >near Carson City, Nevada, same station these two guys this morning were >probably using. The week before last, there was another east coaster, at >least 2-1/2 hours past his sunrise, who did the same thing at, most >likely, the same station. I bet the owner of the station is advertising >it as "WORK 9M2AX on 160 from here!!! Only $XXX for a half hour!!". >I hope these guys are putting an asterisk on their 9M2 QSL cards to >indicate they didn't work Ross from home; but I won't hold my breath >that they do. >Steve, K0XP ## I find it amusing that using a full remote station thousands of miles away is..'ok', yet using a simple remote RX, say 10- 100 miles away, while transmitting from your own backyard, is a 'no-no'. I can't hear worth beans from my own qth, yet 100 miles north of me, my daughter is on 10 acres, and at that location, can hear very well. ## It all makes no sense. Jim VE7RF _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
