[Dx-qsl] Monk Apollo Speaks Out on Illegal Operation from Mount Athos

[Roberto Rey]

Qsl manager critizcizing dxp ops.. really?

That's like Winnie-the-Pooh critizing Spiderman

73 de Rob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Lago" <ac7dx at comcast.net>
To: <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2015 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Monk Apollo Speaks Out on Illegal Operation from Mount 
Athos


> And Baldur got some ham buddies shot dead when he tried to go where he 
> wasnt wanted. I question many of his operations and will always wonder if 
> he is a "Romeo" clone
> 73
> Ron
>
> On 7/25/2015 11:17 PM, Kostas SV1DPI wrote:
>> FYI I translated what Monk Apollo wrote and here it is:
>>
>>
>> It is known that many radio amateurs, many years ago, want to come and 
>> operate from Mount Athos. The older hams know that I helped in the past a 
>> radio amateur team from Thessaloniki Greece to come and operate from 
>> Virgin Mary’s Garden. Most of you know also that the Mount Athos refuse a 
>> license to everyone the last years. Maybe you have forgotten that this is 
>> a result the way Baldur DJ6SI tried to fool the monks to operate 
>> illegally.
>>
>> Unfortunately instead the history guides us, we have seen new tries to 
>> fool the monks the last time.
>>
>> Some time ago, some Latvian hams came in Mount Athos and tried to operate 
>> without any license. They claimed that they had an oral permission. Of 
>> course they had neither oral or written license and Mount Athos went them 
>> out. But their try, even they had not the right documents, was not good 
>> for Mount Athos reputation. Many hams because of his desire to have a 
>> QSO, blamed Mount Athos for this.
>>
>> After a short time, a Greek radio amateur operated from Mount Athos. I 
>> received many messages asking if he is legal or not. He is claimed that 
>> he has a license from a monastery for training operation without to have 
>> in mind the Greek law, which says:
>>
>> “in specific cases and when special security has taken, the owner of the 
>> station with a valid license may, for educational purpose and aiming to 
>> progress of amateur radio, to allow the use of his station to a third 
>> person who is not radio amateur, under his responsibility, supervision 
>> and instructions, for a short time, not bigger than 20 minutes. In such 
>> cases he must sign as /T (training)”
>>
>> But his license is NOT valid because he has not the Holy Council’s 
>> license as the Greek law says:
>>
>> “A special call to be issued for operation from Mount Athos, it is 
>> necessary you have thw written permission of Holy Council”
>>
>> So we speak for another try to fool the Monks. The same negative picture 
>> again.
>>
>> Finally this is what we want? We want to operate even we fool the monks? 
>> Even we make something bad for Mount Athos? Do we feel ok if we do 
>> something like this? And finally are these actions against ham radio 
>> because all these make a far dream a future dxpedition?
>>
>> Mount Athos is a source of Light that illuminates all of us and a Beacon 
>> of Orthodoxs through the Centuries.
>>
>> I asked the Holy Council if a license has been given and they answered 
>> negatively. The Holy Council having in mind the illegal operations of 
>> Baldur DJ6SI, the willing of Latvians who wanted to operate without a 
>> license, the illegal operation of SV2/SV1RP/T or /A at 12 June 2015 and 
>> many received applications to operate from Mount Athos, sent a decision 
>> (doc. Nr F.2/27A/1482/28-6-2015) to the 20 Monasteries of Mount Athos to 
>> make all these clear. With this document, the Holy Community says that if 
>> someone outside Mount Athos wants to operate, he needs a special call and 
>> the written permission of Holy Council. Also is mentioned that all the 
>> answers in relatively applications for a license until now were negative. 
>> So that means all the operations until now are illegal.
>>
>> I want to ask everyone to behave more carefully. In our life in general, 
>> it is better to try something without to offend others, or to raise the 
>> values and institutions, trying to achieve our goal preserving the law 
>> and ethics.
>>
>> Monk Apollo from Docheiariou Monastery.
>>
>>
>> 73 Kostas SV1DPI
>>
>>
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