Well, you probably can operate a remote station somewhere via the Internet to work the next DXpedition to a rare-one, and/or North Korea if/when they get on the air. The QSO should count for your 160M total - but ONLY for your 160M DXCC total from where the transmitter, receiver, and antennas are located - clearly NOT from your remote control point in VE3.
Marsh, KA5M -----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Eddy Swynar Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 6:35 AM To: topband@contesting.com Subject: Topband: Question... Hi Guys, My appreciation of computers in the Ham shack, I'm afraid, is limited to placing the contest QSOs that I might make into Cabrillo format , post-contest, for benefit of to-day's contest sponsors---and I was dragged, kicking & screaming all the way, into that stage, several years ago...! I don't know why, but my "...spidey senses" always go on "high alert" whenever radio & computers are mentioned in the same subject. No doubt that accounts for my ignorance as to to-day's Amateur scene...so I have an ignorant question, from an otherwise ignorant Ham: somebody please bear with me, & kindly give me the condensed "Coles Notes" version in your reply... Specifically, suppose I want to work the (imaginary, of course) upcoming DX-pedition to North Korea that is being mounted as a distraction to basketball, by Dennis Rodman & a few of his well-heeled Ham friends. I would dearly LOVE to log the operation on 160-meters CW---but I understand that their topband aerial will be limited to a very simple random 130' length of wire, thrown out a hotel upper storey window. Question: can I link myself via the internet to some remote "...rent-a-station" in, say, nearby Japan, and use that station to QSO them, all the while using my callsign of VE3CUI...? Like I said earlier, it's an ignorant question, from an ignorant Ham---but I would like to know the answer, just the same...! Many thanks, & ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband