[EIDXA] more ZL9HR

[Richard Haendel]

Forwarded:

To:       Eastern Iowa DX Association



From:  Derby City DX Association



Re:      HARAoA Fund Raising



Date:   December 29, 2012



Sirs:



Upon completion of the ZL9HR 2012 Campbell Island DXpedition, information 
began to appear on various Internet sites regarding fund raising by the 
ZL9HR team leaders and their parent club, the Hellenic Amateur Radio 
Association of Australia (HARAoA).  Team members of ZL9HR voiced their 
concern that individual sponsors, club sponsors, and DX foundation sponsors 
may have been mislead as to the actual purpose and future use of the donated 
funds to the ZL9HR project.



VK3YP John Chalkiarakis, Treasurer - HARAoA and co-leader of ZL9HR, stated 
explicitly on several Internet sites that no members of the ZL9HR DXpedition 
team would receive any of the funds donated toward the ZL9HR project.  Mr. 
Chalkiarakis stated that the funds were now those of the HARAoA organization 
and decisions regarding the future use those donations were solely at their 
discretion.  The non-HARAoA members of the ZL9HR team released a joint 
statement simply asking for a proper accounting of the donated funds to the 
ZL9HR project.  At the date of this writing, the President of the HARAoA 
club, Tommy Horozakis VK2IR (team leader for ZL9HR) has yet to provide any 
public statement regarding this controversy over the donated funds.  The 
following is from the HARAoA web page dated December 24, 2012 regarding 
donations to the ZL9HR project:



".Any excess of donation funds will be donated in order to sponsor

future DXpedition events and return to the DX Community.. "



As of this writing, HARAoA is continuing to accept donations for the ZL9HR 
project.



ZL9HR team members have clearly indicated that statements from the team 
leaders expressed early on that final individual cost(s) of the project was 
dependant on the amount of donated funds from the international DX 
community.  The individual team members fronted their total costs for this 
DXpedition on the good faith statements that international contributions 
would "offset" the individual team member's costs once the international 
contributions began to materialize.



The solicitation of funds from the DX community at-large for the ZL9HR 
project made no reference or inference that the funds collected would 
support any venture other than that of the ZL9HR 2012 Campbell Island 
DXpedition.



The illusion of funds being solicited for a specific effort, but then going 
for other purposes or ventures, borders a financial malfeasance that the DX 
community should not tolerate, nor condone.



Our attached letter to the HARAoA group is quite clear; we expect this 
situation to be rectified and there be complete transparency regarding the 
funds donated to the ZL9HR project.  It is our expectation that HARAoA will 
provide a financial analysis of the DXpedition's incomes and expenses to 
explain the use of the funds donated by international DX community.



As an entity that is on record for having supported the ZL9HR project, 
please join with our organization to express concerns regarding this 
possible breach of trust within our DX Amateur Community.







73,



Jim Vaughan K4TXJ

President

Derby City DX Association



Ralph Wettle W4HK

Vice-President

Derby City DX Association