Remember VK0LD/VK0MM? When he first went on the air in 1999, at least one third party sent a "routine" query to the DXCC desk regarding the legitimacy of the operation from Macquarie. The third party received back a standard "we have to see documentation" reply. This was then relayed to Alan, copied via another DX reflector. But it was done in such a way as to imply that the ARRL was demanding immediate response with copies of license etc.
In other words, someone just HAD to stir up trouble by putting a nasty slant on things. Of course, there were plenty of people to chime in on both sides of the "issue" and escalate the temperature up a few notches. And sure enough, Alan got very angry and responded in kind that since HE was the licensing authority at the time on the island, he didn't need to provide proof to any third party and they could go pound salt. (Well, that's not EXACTLY what he said, but this is a family reflector) The matter was sorted out in short order, but the whole incident was completely unneccesary and only served to get a few twisted individuals a momentary cheap thrill. But that's one reason that some legit ops don't like being asked to provide documentation. The reality is that the days where Don Miller and his World Wide Propagation Study could just suddenly announce that he was now QRV from Pongo Bongo Reef, and his word as an Amateur Radio Operator was good enough to accept that he was there, is long gone. (In large part because of Don Miller, and Romeo and his "North Korea" and "Burma" ops, and a small handful of others). Now mix into that some governments who have complained about "illegal" operations -- some of which may be due to a change of politics following a change of administration, ie 9U a few years back; or our "public servants" at the US F&WS who are hell bent on keeping US citizens off of certain F&WS administered islands, hams or not, and whom have demanded that the ARRL remove their islands from the DXCC entity ranks -- and it's little wonder that we have to live with these aggravations these days. 73 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shelby Summerville Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 1:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] FJ: Canned Worms (long) "7O1YGF remains in "pending documentation" status." As is, at least for me, ZB2/4O3AL. I fail to understand, if an operation is legitimate, why the operator(s) are reluctant to send documentation? HNY to all C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, [email protected] This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, [email protected] This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
