Why even bother to have a distributed category? It's so EASY to setup
one station to remote into. In fact I did it with someone in CA who
wasn't even setup as a remote station beforehand for the California QSO
Party. I took me less than a day of research and work to get it working.
Check out this excellent presentation Gerry, W1VE gave to the YCCC on
Zoom on how to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl8-HR9bQyU ; Plus
no special equipment is needed to do this. It's free.
To add to what K8MR wrote why make a special category for M/M when it's
such a small percentage of the total number of stations that are on the air?
Jeff KU8E
On 11/16/2020 03:14 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
It's a new M/M category, not a replacement for the existing M/M
category. It's an "addition", not a "change". What causes that to
be such a bad idea? Maybe it is, but I'm having a difficult time
seeing it. If anything it makes an interesting possibility for lesser
stations to collaborate, and I could imagine that it opens up some
interesting strategy considerations.
Dave AB7E
"The 2021 CQ WW WPX RTTY, SSB and CW contests will include a new
Multi-Transmitter Distributed category. Stations operating in this
category
may have a maximum of six transmitted signals, one per band at any one
time,
from stations in different locations. All equipment, including
remotely-controlled equipment, must be located in same DXCC entity and CQ
Zone. Six bands may be activated simultaneously. This is a new,
stand-alone category. It is not intended to replace, or compete with,
other
multi-operator categories."
On 11/16/2020 11:42 AM, K8MR via CQ-Contest wrote:
The more troubling change to me is the essentially no-limits
distributed multiops. Competitive Multi-op, especially multi-multi,
over the years has been a category for conspicuous consumption
station builders, combined with the chance for folks to spend a
weekend hanging out with other serious contesters. With COVID I
understand a place for distributing some stations over a relatively
small geographical area. And likewise having remote operators
operating a station with the equipment and antennas in one place.
But having a multi with transmitters and receivers in Maine and in
Miami, and anywhere in between, switching back and forth between
bands to take advantage of propagation advantages from a particular
location, is crazy. While this change is presently just for WPX, if
it is also a test run for CQWW, it's a very bad idea.
While over the years I've done a lot of multi-ops from K8AZ, mostly
in the ARRL and CQWW DX tests, operating as part of a "multi" while
sitting at my own station leaves me cold. And the contests benefit
from having more calls available to work, rather than putting in
single call "multi" efforts tying up lot of stations and people.
73 - Jim K8MR
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