Is this a valid Chase?

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I was activating The Buck GM/ES-039 this morning. I was there for the RSGB High Altitude Balloon event. I didn’t have great success, however I did have great fun on 2m, with a brace of contacts from the top of Scotland down to Edinburgh, oh and Tim @G5OLD from his home near Bristol!

Tim was having a video call with Alex @GM5ALX, who was trying to talk him through fixing his LoRa tracker. Alex contacted me on 2m and then I worked Tim via Whatsapp and Alex’ radio.

Nothing wrong with that, eh?

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You’ve worked Alex twice and Tim via a repeater of some kind. So no, no SOTA contact with Tim.

Them rules can be a bitch at times.

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remote operation of GM5ALX ststion by G5OLD? :sweat_smile:

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Thank goodness it’s not a Corbett.

What’s the difference between a repeater and remote station ? Same tech, in this case I was using 5GHz wireless to remote in…. :rofl:

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I guess Denis @MW0CBC will have to delete all his remote station chases then.

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I’ve lost track of the number of times Denis has chased me from his camper van, using his phone and home station.

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In the interest of correctness it only seems appropriate that your entire SOTA log now is deleted.

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There was a long discussion of this topic in 2015. I believe that there was general agreement that remote station operation was valid for SOTA if the RF was being transmitted legally under the terms of the operator’s own licence. Other cases were left undecided, as I recall.

Martyn M1MAJ

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Using the internet to Spot from a summit and letting folks know you are on air or txt to friends group to let them know you are ready to send from a summit. Using the internet to a remote stations is also done and some chasers actually listening for an activator via a remote SDR and give a score back over the air. I think Fraser’s post was a bit tongue in cheek don’t think he is that desperate for SOTA scores. .

Ian vk5cz ..

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It was a lot tongue in cheek. It was actually hilarious when Alex said, “standby for a 2nd operator”. I thought, “somethings up!” Then Tim came on…:laughing:

I should have it on video. It would have been funnier to see Alex’ end of the QSO though.

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I had HT in left hand and phone in right, so unfortunately no hand or device to record it. I was standing in the garden waiting for a break in the yakking when Tim called me. It seemed too good an opportunity to pass up!

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