[NLRS] Another thought about light QSO's

[Richard Clem]

As I was looking through the Ramsey Electronics catalog last night, I realized
that there is one extremely simple method of detecting light (or infrared
LED's).  If you ever need to check the batteries in your TV remote control,
and easy way to do so is to look at the LED With a digital camera.  

I suspect that it wouldn't be too difficult to make it visible a kilometer
away.  So if an infrared LED is allowed with just one stage of electronic
detection, then it would be pretty trivial to do CW QSO's with a TV remote
control and cel phone camera.  I'm not sure how, but it seems to me that ought
to be excluded from the definition, as having very little to do with amateur
radio.

On the other hand, if it's not excluded, I would be very happy to hand out
QSO's using a TV remote control, a flashlight, or even smoke signals (after
all, that's just a system of modulating the ambient light).

73,
Rick W0IS