That page is incorrect. Full licenses and reciprocal licenses are being
issued by the current authorities. I personally know the guy who issues
the licenses and have been in contact with him since late Spring 2003.
That MARS page has incorrect information about licenses from Iraq!
Bernie, W3UR
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Bernie McClenny, W3UR
Editor of The Daily DX, The Weekly DX and How's DX.
http://www.dailydx.com
-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of VE5ZX
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 22:32
To: CQ Contest
Cc: Tim Totten, N4GN
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Legal issues working Irag?
> Huh?! I must be missing something in your question. Perhaps there
are
The question was posted as a result of reading the following statement
in
'MARS operations begin in Iraq, more operators sought' at
http://www.sirinet.net/~mars/mars_operations_begin_in_iraq.htm
"Several American amateurs have been reported operating on the ham bands
from Iraq , but this activity is problematic since all regular
reciprocal
licensing in Iraq expired with the removal of the Saddam Hussein
government."
Sylvan, VE5ZX
> some countries where it's illegal to communicate with a ham in Iraq,
but I
> don't think Canada is one of them. If you are asking whether there
might
> be some penalty from the CQ WW committee, I can't imagine why as long
as
> the stations on both ends were following all the rules in their
country.
>
> 73,
>
> Tim Totten, n4gn@n4gn.com
> http://www.n4gn.com
>
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