[Dx-qsl] 7O1YGF, 7O1A

[Bernie McClenny, W3UR]

John
I would like all operations to count!  My only point of listing the QSOs was
to say that some count and some don't.  I've worked 7O1A and 7O1YGF.
Between the two it would give me 3 new band countries.  Believe me I wish
both counted!  It is very important for the DXCC to have rules in place so
that we don't have CBers/Freebanders just showing up and getting on the air
with no authorization.  That would be the worse thing for Amateur Radio and
the ARRL DXCC Desk.  

Bernie McClenny, W3UR

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-----Original Message-----
From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of jcowens1 at comcast.net
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 15:13
To: DX-QSL Reflector
Subject: [Dx-qsl] 7O1YGF, 7O1A

Let me see if I have this correct now. In each case,  a group of amateuer
radio operators (doesn't matter who or which country) decides they are going
to help the many deserving ones of us by activating the difficult country of
Yemen. 

They search for the authorizing or licensing agency for this kind of
operation, get permission from someone or some department that says they are
the ones that have the authority, and they tell you to go ahead and do it.
Then they suffer the expense, logistical nightmares and personal risk
toconduct the operation. I am sure it is no picnic doing this kind of thing
in Yemen  Then they print these expensive QSL cards and labor for hours to
get them mailed out to us, all in the interest of misrepresenting themselves
and fooling all us of into thinking we had a "good one". Joke's on you.

Got to be honest with you in saying that it has to be a real chore finding
out who is the licensing or authorizing agency in a country like Yemen. What
are the odds of getting it right the first time? Now Bernie and Ron have put
themselves right in the middle of this by defending the DXCC decision to
reject these operations. Bernie doesn't have to sweat it as he already has 3
confirmed ones in the box. That sure makes me feel better about it. The
7O1YGF (the Yemen German Friendship operation - apparently not so
friendly??) never did turn in any documentation to DXCC at all per the
defenders. The 7O1A operation didn't know the capital of Yemen is Sana and
not Aden and will thus be punished. 

So the obvious conclusion to this has to be that the individual operators of
these 2 operations were the ones who frauded us and we should take them to
task for it. Public flogging seem appropriate. 

Given the circumstances, trying to conduct a properly authorized operation
of this type in Yemen has to be a monumental, if not impossible task. I
think the DXCC committee should cut some reasonable slack for operations
like this that were obviously conducted from there, and with what the
operator's or group thought was proper authorization. Not all of these
countries allow a "clean as a whistle" authorization. I am sure this kind of
"flexibilty" has been applied to other operations. Perhaps the DXCC
committee should publish a list of authorizing agencies that must grant
permission from a DXCC country for it to be recognized. That would save
everyone a lot of  headaches and heartaches. 

John Owens - N7TK

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