[Elecraft] What is DX?

[Rich]

On 6/29/2021 20:44 PM, Julia Tuttle wrote:
I should start with remote operating does not really interest me, but it 
is a big thing right now. Most of the folks I know operate their own 
station remotely.
> It depends on what you're doing with it.
>
> If you're using it for individual contests/awards/etc., I feel like setting
> up your own station is required for it to "count".

 >>> You may feel that way but the rules are very clear. Any DX you work 
from within the USA can count towards your DXCC credit.   Worked All 
States has a 50 mile radius of your home station, that being said you 
can have more than one WAS account if you want to achieve WAS from other 
areas.   I have a friend who splits living in FL and NY.  He has an 
account for each location for his WAS.

As for contests you need to use the exchange information for the 
transmitter location (remote station), State or Section for domestic 
contests, ITU or CQ zone for those contests.  Serial no. contests really 
do not matter much I guess.

>
> If you're doing it for the fun of it, I feel like borrowing someone else's
> is fine.
>
> I'll throw in a related question: what's the right way to identify or
> disclose when you're borrowing someone else's station? I've got 15 W into a
> random wire in a noisy city QTH, but my girlfriend one state over (but same
> FCC callsign digit) has 100 W into a proper 40m dipole in a quiet rural QTH.

It does not matter whose station you are using your call is your call,  
keep in mind if your friend (or anyone) gives you permission then you 
can use their call.   You can even borrow a call to use during a 
contest.  Example in the CQ WPX contest it is all about being a rare 
prefix.   So if you call is K6xxx, K6 is very common, but you have a 
friend whose call is AC6xxx, much more rare,  you can with permission 
use that call during the contest. That being said you can only operate 
within the limits of your license unless they are present and acting as 
a control operator and monitoring your operating.

Rich

>
> Cheers,
>
> Julie
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 8:14 PM Andy Durbin <a.durbin at msn.com> wrote:
>
>> ""Dialing for DX" is not amateur radio!!!"
>>
>> Do you know how many DX entities I have worked or confirmed?  If you knew
>> would you care?  Does the fact that that I may have worked some DX using
>> other stations make less DX available for you to work?
>>
>> I regard my DX count as a personal achievement.  I choose to work all my
>> DX from "my" station but it's a very long time since I could claim that I
>> built everything in my station and even then I didn't fabricate the
>> bottles, resistors and capacitors.  Most of those came from equipment I had
>> cannibalized.
>>
>> I have a good friend who will happily go to a good station in town to work
>> Bouvet if it is ever activated again.  If he works Bouvet good luck to
>> him.  I don't want to work Bouvet unless it is from my station.  That's my
>> choice and it doesn't impact anyone else.
>>
>> I don't care what station anyone else operates.  I do care if they operate
>> a remote station and declare that they are somewhere else.  Those lies do
>> impact me if I'm gullible enough to a attempt a QSO.
>>
>> Andy, k3wyc
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