[Dx-qsl] New DXCC rules

[Peter W2IRT]

My comments ###

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From: DX-QSL [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert
Emory

Just my personal thoughts.
For me DXCC is a personal achievement.  If I can look MYSELF in the DX
mirror and feel fine that's all that matters.  I really don't care how YOU
made it; how YOU succeeded; what corners YOU cut; how much YOU paid a
dexpedition for YOUR card.
I only care about MY DXCC plaque and how I got there.
If YOU need to "cheat" and it's that important to YOU then go for it.  I
think it cheapens the award for YOU but not for ME.

[pjd] ### Cheating cheapens the award for anybody who *does* compete against
the rest of the world's DXers. It's a friendly competition and one I know
I'll never win since I don't have a superstation of my own, but it's a
competition I love and I'm passionate about. I want to compete against my
fellow hams with consistent and fair rules. 

###DXCC is a premiere operating award, not a "thanks for playing" award like
WAC or even WAS, or worked all river barge terminals or whatever. It's the
Big One, and it should be reserved for operators using either their own
stations (remoted or otherwise) or stations belonging to friends or clubs
where no financial remuneration is involved to the station-owner, it should
be situated in mostly the same propagation conditions as the operator, and
all gear must be interconnected either via cables or RF operating
exclusively on amateur radio frequencies with no connection to the PSTN or
Internet. If you're wealthy and have a yard full of towers and an aluminum
overcast of your own, that's great. You get to be with other top dawgs in
the big leagues. If you have 100W and a vertical, but all other condx being
the same, you get to participate at a slightly lower level, but at least you
can take pride in your contacts.

### Paid remote stations violate every aspect of Ham Spirit in my book, and
by requiring the Internet, it's no longer even amateur radio. Playing
dial-a-remote to get the best propagation is just downright cheating, and I
put all of those on the same footing as DX nets "that's a good QSO. Two by
two, rifle shots, bang bang" or some other DX spoonfeeding balderdash.

### If the League really wanted to address this situation they'd create a
parallel award for real stations only. DXCC Ultra, if you will. I'd pay
extra to play in the "no kids, lids or space cadets" class.