[Great-River-DX] FW: [DX-CHAT] RE: 7O

[Cliff Ahrens]

For those of you who need 7O and haven’t seen this post on DX-Chat, Chris
Chris Lorek, G4HCL, has announced that he plans to be active from Sana,
Yemen, as 7O/G4HCL from Monday 13 August until early on Wednesday 15 August.
The operation will only be SSB, probably only on 20m.

See the comments from Bill Moore NC1L of the DXCC desk in response to an
inquiry from N7TK.  The DXCC Desk has not yet seen any paperwork on the
operation.  WFWL.  Good luck.

Cliff, K0CA

From: kf2ti at njdxa.org [mailto:kf2ti at njdxa.org] On Behalf Of
jcowens1 at comcast.net
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 12:44 PM
To: Moore, Bill, NC1L
Cc: DX Chat
Subject: [DX-CHAT] RE: 7O

Bill:
 
Thanks for the rapid reply. Too bad he didn't contact you, and you are
unable to contact him. Hopefully he is aware of the posted DXCC rules and
knows the acceditation requirements. I guess it is kind of a tossup as to
whether it will ever count. My personal guess is that it won't be. Yemen is
obviously a very difficult place to get an approved DXCC operation from. It
seems easy enough to get some kind of permission to go there and operate
given recent operations, but fitting the DXCC criteria is another story.
WFWL in this case involves a  large time committment and expense, but that
will have to be my personal decision under the circumstances. Thanks again
for your reply and information.
 
John Owens - N7TK
 
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Moore, Bill, NC1L" <nc1l at arrl.org> 
John:

Please see my comments under each item, below:

Regards

 
Bill Moore NC1L
DXCC Manager

ARRL - The National Association for Amateur Radio
225 Main Street
Newington, CT 06111
Telephone: (860) 594 0234
Fax: (860) 594-0346
email: dxcc at arrl.org
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Blog: http://www.arrl.org/blog/DXCC%20Dialog

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From: jcowens1 at comcast.net [mailto:jcowens1 at comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 12:49 PM
To: DXCC
Cc: DX Chat
Subject: 7O

Bill:
 
I am writing this as an open email to you in hopes that you will respond to
my questions for my benefit, and also for others that partake in DXCC. The
following article appeared in the DXis website:

Chris Lorek, G4HCL, has authorized me to inform everyone that he plans to be
active from Sana, Yemen, once again as 7O/G4HCL from Monday 13 August until
early on Wednesday 15 August. Chris has written permission and official
authority to operate on all HF amateur bands under supervised conditions,
but warns that it may or may not be possible to obtain the specific
documentation that satisfies DXCC requirements. WFWL!
This is NOT A DXpedition but a business trip, and operation will therefore
only be when possible and is only likely to be for short periods at a time.
Chris will be using 1kW to a professional biconical monopole communications
antenna. Activity will be SSB only, and probably only on 20m (look between
14170 and 14260kHz). QSL information for this operation is direct only to
G4HCL,PO Box 400, Eastleigh SO53 4ZF, UK.
 
This begs the obvious questions given the recent 7O operations (7O1YGF AND
7O1A) that have happened and not approved by DXCC:
 
1. Have you had any contact with Chris regarding who the proper authority is
and what paperwork is necessary for it to get DXCC approval? Would you let
us know who the recognized authority is there and what paperwork is required
from them. I ask this question because it keeps coming up in discussions
about past and future operation from 7O. If he hasn't contacted you, are you
going to try and contact him to advise him on what is required to get
approval of his op from DXCC.
 
REPLY: Well, I tried but my attempt (e-mail) failed as it appears to be a
bad address. And, he has not attempted to contact me, in advance. Since his
visit is coming real soon contact by regular mail seems unlikely.
Documentation requirements are prescribed by the DXCC rules and can be found
in Section III: Accreditation Criteria. We will need to await his return to
see what paperwork he might have.

2. Do you feel there is a possibility of this becoming a DXCC approved
operation? Is it worth canceling my current vacation plans to try and make a
contact and get a card confirming it?

REPLY: No way to tell right now. Cancelling vacation plans is your personal
decision.
 
3. Since it is not a Dxpedition and since he will only be operating during
his available time, it means extensive time commitment on our parts to try
and be there when he activates. That pretty much ties up 3 days to do that.
When he is on, there will be huge pileups with the slimmer chances of
getting through .Is it worth going through all of that if it is unlikely to
ever get DXCC approval? Sharing you opinion on this will hopefully gives us
a better feel for whether it is worth the effort and sacrifices to get in
the log.  I don't need any more wallpaper of worthless QSL cards from 7O. 
 
REPLY: I hope the people do not base their decision to work an operation
based solely on my word! As they say, WFWL


Regards

Bill

This message may be re-transmitted as long as it is in its entirety

Sincerely
John Owens - N7TK
 

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