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remote DXing still DXing? These days many DXers use remote SDR receivers all around the world. There is no longer any need for packing tons of equipment and travel to far away places to catch a lot of rare DX stations. You just start a computer. And connect to some remote SDR far, far away. But is it still DXing? As it was once defined? Should we care? I mean about DXing as it once was, in those days when you tried to catch and get verified as many exotic stations as possible, using whatever receiver you could afford with some kind of antenna you could manage to erect, all done by yourself at your location, be it at home or at some other place that you had access to. You did it the way you could, with the knowledge you had, aiming to get better. Now we're in this new world, with lots of remote receivers around the world. So should we still care? I would argue that is all depends. If you have little interest in QSL collecting, I see no problems at all. If you love QSLing, from remote sites not your own, I sense some troubled waters. But that's me. Experienced remote DXer Bjarne Melde has put it this way: "We are past the time when the definition of a DXer was someone sitting in front of a receiver, at home, awake all night and taking notes. Back in the days, even audio recordings were considered faul play. DXing had been all but dead by now had it not been for SDRs and different ways to operate them." What I find troubling is not development as such, but how we use it. Constant, armchair DXing from other parts of the world is not what I would call DXing. A voice from a radio station also raises his doubts. Ira Wilner, chief engineer at WKBK, AM 1290, wrote this in a QSL to me: "I usually chastise those who have taken the luck of the hunt away from the hobby by not listening in real time, by digitally recording the entire MW band and then taking their time to search for top of the hour ID's within their sound files. Nothing like having to be at the right place at the right time." A point worth considering, while going deeper into the world of digital DXing. Here, at this website, you will find nothing about remote DXing on other sites, This is my story on how to set up and use remote solutions between a city home and our countryside residence, what in Sweden is called a "torp". So, yes, I consider this is a fair version of modern DXing. I still have to maintain the receivers and, not least, all the antennas. When they go down, I have to go and fix them. Me, nobody else, and if I'm not there already it is just an hours drive away. I don't have to go far north or travel around the world. This is still where I live. And, well, I do a lot of recordings… That's a really good reason for going remote. Now I don't have to go by car once a week to fetch all those recordings, I can do it anytime, online. And still all done by me. |
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