Above the shrill...At last a voice of reason!
73,
Jay/AF2C
At 04:38 PM 6/29/2006 +0000, you wrote:
Jack- Perhaps the question is- Were they being sent to Desecheo for
contract work, and threw together a Dxpedition, or did they totally use
their contacts to go there for the DXpedition under another guise? Who
cares either way, if they had permission to land and occupy from an entity
authorized by law to issue this permission. I think that is the question
raised.
I don't know the motivation of the idividual who questioned the operation,
but how would you feel if you had been working for months, maybe years to
get legal permission to go there and were told no, no, no, there is no way
an amateur radio operation will ever be allowed, then suddenly a
DXpedition shows up? Could you resist the temptation to contact someone
and say what the h e double toothpicks is going on, I was told no amateur
operations were allowed?
Maybe that wasn't the individuals situation, I don't know. Perhaps the
individual was just trying to see if the Dxpedition really had permisison,
and didn't realize all the fuss it would cause. Maybe they were jealous
and ticked off because they weren't allowed. We may never know. But before
the DX community sends out a hit man, at least try to understand how such
an individual may have felt about the situation.
The fact that legal charges at one point were considered makes me think
that at minimum the person giving verbal permission didn't really have the
authority to do so. Maybe I'm wrong about that, and perhaps if that was
the case the DXpeditioners didn't know that at the time. As I said before,
for a previous DXpedition we were told to just go without permission by
the person in charge, because they wouldn't enforce the rules as written.
I am sure if we did that, and our DXpedition was questioned, we would be
in a similar pickle, even though technically we had "verbal permission"
for the operation. But, that individual did not have legal authority to
give verbal permission, and we knew it.
73, Duane, WV2B
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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