You have a choice:
1. Draw your own line, in which case no one can criticize your choices
2. Pursue an award and abide by its rules
ARRL awards are pretty explicit about what you can and can't do. With WAS,
for example, "Contacts must be made from the same location, or from
locations no two of which are more than 50 miles apart". But if you've got
your own idea of how to work all 50 states and want to count confirmed QSOs
made on a handheld while driving through them, that's fine; just don't
submit such QSOs for WAS credit.
Those competing for ARRL WAS, DXCC, Challenge, and/or Honor Roll do expect
their co-competitors to play by the rules. So using an internet link to your
friend's station in JA to get a better shot at BS7H would be unacceptable in
this context. But walking over to the contest super-station next door is
fine.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of harris_ruben
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 4:25 PM
To: dx-chat List
Subject: [DX-CHAT] working from WHERE??
>The guy that has to go to someone else's rig to run a KW+ has no
>bragginmg rights, IMHO.
This is just meant as food for thought. No opinion here, only questions.
I've never done it, but ask... "How is that any different from a ham
who has a place (and station) in NJ and, say... Miami or Aspen?
When I worked the first Swains Island expedition, I was in Maryland,
at my vacation home, with a 17M inverted vee and a barefoot FT-900.
One of the easiest contacts I ever made. Should I lose that contact
because I wasn't at my NJ place?
The only difference I see is that the physical station and all the
work that went into it was someone else's work. How about a ham who
lives in a covenanted dwelling and goes to his club to work DX? He
has no other options.
The between-the-ears part, the technique, the tuning and hunting
techniques certainly belongs to the guy making the contact,
regardless of where he may be. The rules say that "anywhere in the
US" counts for just that - the US, without regard to location or
station.
I can go on. If I lent my linear and rig to another ham, should his
qso count? What if he drove over and hooked his own rig up to MY amp
and antenna?
Where do you draw the line?
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