[Elecraft] Bouvet

[Fred Jensen]

I wonder sometimes if DXCC has become an oxymoron of magnitude similar 
to NTS?  When originally conceived, actually contacting 100 "countries" 
was a huge endeavor.  Even making transoceanic contacts between the 
largest of stations was very difficult.  Today's world is so very very 
different.  When So. Sudan showed up, a new-ish ham said to me, "I've 
never seen such pileups!"  I told him, "ATNO for everyone and those who 
sit at the top of the list with 'all' of them need to keep their seats."

After I worked BS7H, I showed my wife a photo of W6RGG at one of the 
positions.  She said, "You count that rock as a country?"  I started to 
explain and then passed, the rock is claimed by more than one country of 
course and I'd already been through it with her over VP6DI.

As I said when I started this, I just wondered recently while in the shower.

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 3/23/2019 6:52 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>  On 3/23/2019 2:34 PM, ab2tc wrote:
>> But if I work Bouvet using this remote, can I really claim
>> DXCC credit for myself for it?
> DXCC rules say that you can count a QSO made from any STATION location 
> (that is, where RF is transmitted and received,) anywhere in the lower 
> 48 states.
>> It would seem exceptionally unfair. Doesn't
>> ARRL have a rule for as how far you can move from place to place and 
>> still
>> claim accumulated DXCC credits?
>
> Yep.
>
>> I find this highly troubling.
>
> Me too. When I moved from Chicago to NorCal 12 years ago I started 
> over with DXCC. There's a guy who takes pride in being at/near the top 
> of DXCC on 160M, but he started in CO, then moved to NC.  I strongly 
> approve of operating remotely from a station that is close to you, 
> especially if you built the station!  I view with contempt those who 
> would use remote operation of a station much much closer to DX than 
> their own, or even rent that station and travel to it, and count QSOs 
> made from that station for DXCC.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC