[Dx-qsl] (no subject)

[Ron]

Your kidding...right???At 04:21 PM 7/23/2004 -0400, N7DC at cs.com wrote:
> >From todays ARRL bulletin:
>
>"6O0A ---> Sam Voron, VK2BVS (6O0A) [425DXN 636] has been back in Galkayo,
>Central Somalia for a while and will be there until 30 September. He has
>established two club stations (the first at the Radio Galkayo ARC and the
>second at the Radio Daljir ARC) which are being used for amateur radio radio
>training courses. Those stations are also available for the use of foreigners
>and details on getting the Somalia Visitors ham radio license can be found at
>http://www.radiogalkayo.com/banner/radio_school3.php. As for getting a QSL
>card from 6O0A, this is a "QSO only" station and Sam is not interesting in
>QSLling: "I am leaving the QSLing for the hams who may mount future
>dxpeditions or when the locals can do it", he says. "
>
>NOT THE WAY to train future amateur radio operators.  HE may not be
>interested in QSLing, but who does he think its contacting them when they are
>"training"?  Start them correctly in the WHOLE of the hobby, and dont 
>leave out a very
>important step.
>
>I wonder if this is the same person who went to one of the South Sea Islands
>a few years back, and did the same thing?
>
>With the LogBook of the World and eQSL out there, and completely free, there
>is no excuse whatsoever  for not at the very least using those services, and
>thus allow the worlds ham population to not only work, to to confirm this
>fairly rare country.
>
>Ive got Somalia on two bands, so dont look for me to be in there, if there
>are to be no QSLs.  Its a shame to go to all the trouble to "train" hams, and
>not go all the way.
>Danny
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