[RRDXA] Fw: 3V - Call for Support

[Uwe Koenneker, DL8OBF]

 Moin liebe Funkfreunde,
üblicherweise ist es nicht meine Angewohnheit hier im Reflektor um Spenden zu bitten. Auch sind wir mit den von Euch als ´Mitgliedsspenden´  erhaltenen Geldern sehr vorsichtig und spenden diese nicht weiter.
Ich habe aber die beiliegende Anfrage von unserem RRDXA-Mitglied Ashraf erhalten, die ich Euch ans Herzen legen möchte. 
Ich war erst letztes Jahr in 3V und habe selbst gesehen, welch hervorragende Jugendarbeit an den Pfadfinderstationen geleistet wird. Hierbei werden nicht nur junge Leute dem Amateurfunk zugeführt sondern die Jugendlichen erhalten auch Halt in diesem doch recht instabilen Teil der Welt. Es wäre schade, wenn so etwas an Profanem wie Lizenzgebühren scheitern würde!
Deshalb möchte ich Euch bitten dem Aufruf zu folgen und idealerweise an LX1NO (lx1no at yahoo.com)  per Paypal
zu spenden. 
Dank und vy 73        Uwe, DL8OBF


   ----- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ----- Von: Ashraf Chaabane <ash.kf5eyy at gmail.com>An: Uwe Koenneker, DL8OBF <dl8obf at yahoo.de>Gesendet: Sonntag, 17. März 2019, 07:39:46 MEZBetreff: 3V - Call for Support
 Hi Uwe,
Would you please spread out the following message.
Many thanks in advance,
73 Ash 3V8SF, 3V8SS        

*****************************3V-Tunisia, call for support

The "Association des Radio Amateurs Tunisiens - ARAT", created back in 2011 after the Jasmin Revolution, has demonstrated a satisfactory level of serving Tunisian radio amateurs and promoting the hobby in Tunisia (See our website: https://www.arat.tn/ or our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/arat.tunisia/).
The work that has been done so far was mainly funded by ARAT members (average age 22 years old) and other organizations like YASME (YOTA Activity) or IARU-R1/STARS (ARDF Equipment).

Contrarily to other countries in the region, ARAT is not receiving ANY financial support from the government especially in these hard times of very bad economy.

ARAT has a cooperation agreement with the Scout Organization which allows access to thousands of young scouts and provide a good terrain for developing our hobby.
Right now, the licenses of the Scout clubs haven't been paid for 10 years putting the clubs at serious risk of closure and 3V not being on the air for an unknown period. 
Amateur Radio is a very small part of Tunisian Scouts activities which is already having financial difficulties.
Last year, the Ministry of Telecommunication asked us to pass all our equipment to a conformity test. This won't also be possible without raising funds.

ARAT is now kindly asking all those who want to support us, to make a donation to fund license payments (A total of 2 kEuro, 9 stations) and the conformity test of our equipment (about 1 kEuro, 100 Euro per TRX, once in life). Any other remaining monies will help financing ARAT activities such as maintaining clubs equipment, antenna experimentation, electronic kits building, lectures in universities, etc.

ARAT is committed to provide those who donated with a detailed financial report of where the money went including all back-up documents as we always did with YASME. ARAT is also committed to respond to any query in this regards in full transparency.

Donations should go to the Paypal account of our QSL Manager LX1NO (lx1no at yahoo.com) to avoid big tax cuts if sent directly to Tunisia. Those who do not have a Paypal account, may send an email to Norby LX1NO to inquire for his bank account.

If any further clarification is needed, please email me at ash.kf5eyy at gmail.com 

73 from Tunisia!

President of ARAT
Ashraf Chaabane, KF5EYY
3V8SF, 3V8SS  
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