[Dx-qsl] 7O1YGF

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Bernd, DJ7MG died 03/14/2002.

Bernie McClenny, W3UR schrieb:
> 7O/OH2YY was QRV from Tuesday May 7th through Saturday May 11th.
>
> He worked more than one North American station.
>
> AB5C said " Yemen government told the ARRL that if they recognized this
> operation there would never be another amateur radio operation from Yemen"
> first I have heard of this one.
>
> None of the 7O1YGF ops are Silent Keys.
>
> AB5C said "This 7O1YGF operation took place not to long after the Yemen
> Civil War had ended."  The war ended before May 1990 and the operation was
> in April 2000 - 10+ years later.
>
> Bernie
>
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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 ab5c
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 15:43
> To: dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: RE: [Dx-qsl] 7O1YGF 
>
> I agree with most of what Mike, K3AIR and others, have to say.  I also
> worked 7O1YGF on SSB and CW. I have both cards and if they counted I would
> be at the top of the Honor Roll.  I've been a ham for 50 years this March
> 20th and it has been a long haul trying to work them all.  Never had a beam
> up until 1988. Always wire or vertical antennas.
>
> >From what I remember about the OH operation that took place after the
> 7O1YGF
> he was only there for a long weekend and only worked one NA station.  All
> the rest were in Europe.  I also remember hearing the Yemen government told
> the ARRL that if they recognized this operation there would never be another
> amateur radio operation from Yemen.  Well that doesn't seem to matter since
> its been almost seven years and no one had operated in dxpedition style from
> Yemen.
>
> I also believe one of the German operators is a silent key. Seems like he
> passed away a couple years after the operation.
>
> What I think the ARRL should do is recognize this operation on a temporary
> basis until a real operation can take place.  Something like what happened
> to Romeo operation from Myanmar (Burma).  I was told by an ARRL official, at
> HAMCOM in 1997, that they planned to revoke the credit XY0RR that they had
> issued unless the person had QSLs from XZ1N. I don't know if anyone actually
> lost credit.  I also think the Yemen government owes the US big time for the
> USS Cole incident.
>
> It also seem to me that DX in DXCC was about working distant places and not
> foreign governments which it seems to have become.  This 7O1YGF operation
> took place not to long after the Yemen Civil War had ended. I think there
> were still two government bodies function one in Sanaa and the other in Aden
> and they probably had less that perfect communication between them.  No one
> had thought about amateur radio and what to do about it. So if it comes up
> just say that "operation is not possible".
>
> Isn't that what the hams that want to mount a dxpedition to KP1 or KP5 hear
> from the US government?
>
> We can always hope their will be an operation in the future.
>
> 73
> Herb
> AB5C
>
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