Posted: 3/28/2013 4:52:13 AM EDT
| Sorry for the possible newb question but here it is. I've been playing with Echolink on my phone the last couple nights. Talked to a couple really cool guys in Northern Ireland. Do you guys consider these as DX contacts? Seems to me like its kinda "cheating" when all you have to do is click a button on your phone. Just curious. Regardless it's been entertaining while I wait for my new antenna to show up. |
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The contact has to receive the same RF you transmit in one hop. Must be infrastructureless except for natural atmospheric conditions. But then, do you consider Satellite comms DX? hmmm. Moonbounce, since the moon is natural, I would consider DX. Nope, I consider it working a repeater that happens to be in space  Most satellites give you a footprint that will only let you reliably talk a few hundred miles at most anyway, so it's not really DX. Most contests that disallow repeater contacts will allow satellite contacts, but it's a special case.
Moonbounce is DX. Same with meteor scatter. Your RF is leaving your antenna and going to someone else's without being retransmitted by a third party. |