This kind of thing happens too often. Sadly, there is no cure for those who
skim the gravy off other people's prepatory hard work. The worst of this
practice is when a group or person jumps to a DX location with poor or no real
permissions and spoils the place for a long time for ham radio there, and gives
ham radio a bad name many places beyond that location.
The other eventuality is that a DX trip results in injury or death due to poor
planning or poor on-site behavior.
I advocate more stringent DXCC oversight because DXCC is the only thing folks
listen to.
On the other hand, several entities just lack a formal way of licensing hams,
as per below, getting DXing into a match between those who DXCC already trusts
and others, because the trusted insiders just must be ok and thus an oral
approval can be called a license, or whatever other method is used, for example.
73,Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [DX-NEWS] 9X Press
Release Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:54:41 +0100 Team members of the
multinational dxpedition to Rwanda, 9X0R, express their disagreement and
disappointment to the three German operators who are operating from Rwanda
now, because the only important thing for those three hams, it seems, is
to be the first regardless of anything else. As everyone knows, it was
almost impossible to get a license in Rwanda. After 6 months of hard work,
I reached an in-person interview with the Head of RURA, the department of
Rwanda's Government that deals with affairs of radio, and, risking my
previous work and the full cost of this trip, I went to talk to the head of
the RURA . Before my trip to Kigali everything related with amateur radio
(licensing included) was frozen . RURA Officials were fearful of amateur
radio activities and they had not much interest in this matter. They did
not know how to make a license, or conditions or standards to apply or
protocols to follow, problems which were solved thanks to the work done by
Peter Stabusch and myself in those frenetic days of the beginning of this
year. So they start to establish the Rules to follow for obtaining the
amateur license and at the same time they prepared my 9X0R license. I
am a member of the German DX Foundation and since my appointment with the
head of RURA was confirmed past December, I sent an email to GDXF Secretary
informing him about my plans and told him that I would like to have another
GDXF member in my team. I was communicating this way to my friends in the
GDXF, including its President,DJ9ZB, telling them about my plans without
hiding anything because I was thinking that all GDXF members we are
gentlemen. Today, thanks to the work others have done, DJ6SI, DK2WV and
DJ9ZB have been able to get their 9X0 licenses so quickly, at the same time
counting us for nothing, although simple domestic education means, at
least, informing us about their intentions. I suppose that their only aim
was to go there and get on the air before us regardless of anything else.
This is something I would never have done because of my moral principles,
my ethical principles and my education. 9X0R members want to express our
revulsion towards this kind of practice. We will continue with our plans of
doing the Dxpedition as it was planned and helping to establish amateur
radio in Rwanda as well as Rwanda Amateur Radio Union in the Republic of
Rwanda and donating materials for the future Kigali's radio club station so
that young people of Rwanda could get acquainted with the world of
Amateur Radio and would be able to learn about international friendship
through our hobby. Therefore, I ask everyone of you that, if you spend
your time on calling 9X0X-DJ6SI, 9X0W-DK2WV or 9X0Z-DJ9ZB pile-ups , just
think and remember which kind of hams you are trying to contact. We, 9X0R
members, still believe in the gentlemen hams and we are against those who
believe that anything is valid looking to be first. The 9X0R will return
to the German DX Foundation the funds donated by it because we believe that
the actions of its President, DJ9ZB, are not the proper ones to promote
amateur radio, DX and dxpeditions. Antonio Gonzalez EA5RM - 9X0R
www.9x0r.com
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