If you had no shack, how much would you pay to get on the air?

[W5BRM]

http://www.remotehamradio.com

Nice concept... check the Pricing/Inquire link before you get too excited though :rofl:

[NQ6U]

Not that much. For the yearly "Bronze" price, you could duplicate my entire shack and hugely improve the antenna system.

[NQ6U]

dupe

[KG4NEL]

Would take the fun completely out of it for me.

[WØTKX]

WTF?

§97.113(a)(2) "Prohibits communications for hire or for material compensation, direct or indirect, paid or promised, except as otherwise provided in these rules."

The "otherwise provided" exceptions are narrowly drawn for occasional "swap net" activity, to allow teachers to use an amateur station in classroom instruction, and to allow the control operator of a club station to be paid for the sort of code practice and bulletin transmissions conducted by W1AW -- in fact, the rule was written specifically for W1AW.

[KG4NEL]

I bet they're drawing the line that the communications themselves aren't for hire, they're just a VOIP version of renting out a Caribbean QTH.

[W5BRM]

i think the thing that really gets me is in ADDITION to the annual fee, you still have to pay per minute/hour... even on the higher based plans after you get done with the "included minutes" I mean, sheesh $7K with 1500 minutes. My cellphone only charges me $80 for that...lol. At $7k, I they should provide a sexy maid serving me pinia colada's while im on the air. Talk about grabbing every extra bit of cash you can get your hands one...lol. The reason they charge like that is because they say it will stop radio hogs...lol. A nice little timer will do the same thing. Or perhaps a bandwidth limit? Allow 2gigs per day or whatever based on the membership level or something like that.

[W5BRM]

Actually tracked down one of the contest dx locations on google maps. I grew up about 10 miles from there! Plug 42.555162, -74.581817 into google maps and you can see the tower farm and setup.


And I found out WHY they need to charge so much money!

Must be nice to land a chopper in your front yard

[KJ3N]

Not that much. For the yearly "Bronze" price, you could duplicate my entire shack and hugely improve the antenna system.

The bronze plan would pay for my K3/100 with 2nd RX. The platinum plan would pay for every working HF radio I currently own (K3, two IC-7000s, and IC-746Pro).

The renewal fee on the bronze plan would pay for every piece of material I've bought to make all the wire antennas I currently have deployed, plus a couple of the VHF/UHF beam antennas I've bought.

[kb2vxa]

The ARRL is the rich radio version of rich Congress representing their rich agendas and ignoring the electorate so they can go to hell with a wouff hong up their collective ass! FYI the "concept" has been around a LOT longer having been in use for decades by broadcasters and hams alike for remote control of stations. Remember the first popular ham system made by Kachina? Not the first system mind you but the first and frankly only popular ham system, now the ARRL boffins are at it again.

Interestingly enough the western Pueblo, Native American cultures located in the southwestern United States, include Hopi, Zuni, Tewa Village (on the Hopi Reservation), Acoma Pueblo, and Laguna Pueblo practice the Kachina religion. Kachinas are spirits or personifications of things in the real world. A kachina can represent anything in the natural world or cosmos, from a revered ancestor to an element, a location, a quality, a natural phenomenon, or a concept such as radio.