[CQ-Contest] RA3CO or "HK3AR"

[David J. Sourdis]

Hello all.

I hope that the moderator will let this 
  pass and I offer my apologies to all if I it looks like I use this channel to 
  remove the dirt around this HK3AR issue, but there are many things that cannot 
  be left unsaid, specially when some ill-intentioned comments are said by 
  people who don't have the moral authority to say anything about it. I have 
  read comments in some ham forums and I decided not to answer them, but I had 
  enough. Please let this words on behalf of some HK hams be read by all. 
  Everybody has the right to defend themselves.

Regarding visiting 
  Colombia, I had no idea about Mr. Weil's travels and troubles with colombian 
  hams. I must say that there´s always more than one version of every tale. I 
  also understand it was a long time ago. Anyway, for a little more recent 
  references and not half a century old news, we should ask K3ZO, N3JT or John 
  J. Boucher whose callsign I've forgotten, he lived here during nine years, and many 
  other hams who have visited SEVERAL TIMES HK land, what they think about 
  it.

Images speak better than words, please watch this video about taking the risk of going to Colombia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgW8Y7F8DN8
key words: risk, Colombia, riesgo

Concerning the HK3AR issue I must say this:

I agree with the complaint filed to the 
  Communications Ministry of Colombia and agree with the decision taken by this 
  institution and also agree with the decision taken by the Contest Comitee. I 
  don´t know about the variety of possible reasons, suggested by some people, that they had to do so. For me and many others it was an illegal operation, period. And it is 
  incredible that some hams outside of HK try now to show that the bad guys 
  of this "movie" are the ones who took the initiative to do what they 
  righteously did and who were supported by many other hams in Colombia, 
  including myself.

With my colleagues from Spain, the Torrent Contest 
  Club, we worked that contest as M/S and HK3AR was the only one HK station we 
  logged. When I learned that an illegal operation had taken place in 
  Colombia  I felt ashamed, I felt like I couldn't look to the faces of my 
  spanish contest mates because this had happened. And more because this 
  affected our score and we were in a foto finish with another spanish M/S 
  group, and the difference on scores were less than half a multiplier for the 
  first place in Spain. So in my case, there is no jealousy, it is just a matter 
  of doing things right and about not doing invalid multipliers in a contest 
  because somebody with the help and support of others, pirated a callsign, that 
  applies here too and it doesn't make me happy scorewise. 

It is a matter 
  of doing things right in a country were many of us are tired of the wrong 
  doing, the corruption, and we dont want to look away anymore, even when this 
  kind of attitude SOMETIMES can be very and totally hazardous to your health. We just try to put our grain of sand, or our two cents, to make 
  this a better country, but some are afraid to take actions about this because 
  it can be dangerous in a place where the voices who complain about wrong doing 
  can be silenced by bullets or by others with obscure interests who try to 
  ridiculize and calumniate these brave persons and deviate the public attention in other 
  direction.

It is insulting for all of the more than 20 colombian hams 
  who supported with their signature the complaint against A CASE OF ILLEGAL USE OF 
  HAM RADIO IN COLOMBIA, that there's has been some comments in some internet 
  ham pages propped by a group of hams, trying to change the subject. Trying to 
  make us look like the bandits, like just a bunch of jealous and envious hams, 
  give me a break! 

So if there are individuals or groups that want to come to this country to 
  support, or consider that is OK, breaking the law, if they come here to mock of 
  and insult honest persons who try to do things right even when it can be 
  dangerous in some cases. We don't want them here, and I guess that it would be the same feeling in any country.


David  
  Sourdis
HK1KXA
EC5KXA






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