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2025 year – 61 years of my personal HAM radio licence
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My operation position early 60th 1964
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160m Honor Roll world nr.1
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My DXCC 160m score was deeply cross controled physicaly by DXCC commitee in ARRL HQ for more detailed information please visit section 160m on my pages
All the same, the ARRL DXCC board, headed by the W9JJ, cancelled my access to the competition and also from LoTW. Fuck them
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Licenced since 1964
Greetings to the DXCC committee.
I have been considering for some time whether I should even address your recent decision to exclude me from the DXCC program. However, since this is the second time I have been expelled, as mentioned by Bart, W9JJ, I have no choice but to respond. In my opinion, this is purely arbitrary on the part of the DXCC committee, which contrasts with its proclamations that it considers itself to be a guarantor of the purity and rules of the DXCC. Since you have no arguments to justify my exclusion, you refer to a mere statement that it is your agenda and yours alone to decide as you please. In this context, by the way, I'd be interested to know how the commission is addressing (as the guardian of purity) the fact that in recent years many so-called DXers have been using remote RXs from nearby DX stations, but that's not the point here. So much for the introduction.
Specifically on my case. Bart, W9JJ in his statement mentioned my first exclusion from the 160m program, where I was also #1, in 2009. At that time, DXCC conditions were different than they are now. In 2009, the rule was that if submitted QSLs were physically checked directly by the DXCC program management, then they were not subject to any further checks. I did so at that time and sent them via your QSL manager OK1MP (SK) to the ham-meeting in Friedrichshafen where you checked all my valid QSLs under the supervision of NC1L (SK) and awarded me the #1 position on 160m. In violation of the DXCC conditions at that time, you also asked to send the QSL to ARRL HQ which I refused, precisely because of the violation of the conditions and fearing possible damage or loss of the QSL-cards in transit. This concern turned out to be very justified because when I complied with the committee for the second time, the QSLs were partially lost and partially water damaged on the return delivery. Subsequently, after the intervention of W4ZV, I was excluded from the program without further justification. NC1L played a major role in this at that time.
After about 10 years I spent mostly working EME on 6m and 2m I applied for DXCC diplomas for these bands. At that time NC1L refused to grant me the diplomas even after 10 years. Based on OK1MP's advice, I got a new call OK1YQ and on this call I received all the diplomas I applied for, such as DXCC Honor Roll, DXCC HN #1, DXCC challenge, 11band DXCC, DXCC 2m, DXCC 160m with skore 348 again world #1 etc. I can state today that I have received all the diplomas I wanted from you in my 61 year HAM career. Since you changed the DXCC rules during the 10 years since 2009, where you made it mandatory to check QSLs directly at HQ, I sent all 160m QSLs to the committee for checking in the USA after your call. As you write in your final report, all my QSLs were cross-checked and compared with DX station logs and you found everything OK, which you also confirm in your report.
Now I come to the heart of the matter. As I understand from Bart's last statement, five years ago you excluded me from the program because you thought I tried to pass off a modified (forged) QSL as a new DXCC country on 160m. This is absolute nonsense and only a reason invented by you. I never used any forged QSL in DXCC. Before sending the QSL-card in question, I pointed out in advance that there was no intention to recognize the QSL as a new DXCC country, and I clearly wrote that I only ask for an assessment of a corrupted QSL-card. Bart made the incorrect inference that I intended to claim a false QSL-card in DXCC. In my opinion he was just looking for an excuse to exclude me from the DXCC contest. I can document all this from the correspondence I have stored.
In conclusion, I would like to say that the DXCC committee is not acting according to its own rules and thus damaging the fairness of the DXCC program. Their response to criticism is only „It's our program so we do what we see fit“. My exclusion five years ago and now has no real basis and is totally arbitrary on the part of the committee. I can only speculate as to whose interests this serves, but it certainly does not serve the interests of the amateur radio community.
Since I have no other way to defend myself and all my arguments are being ignored by the DXCC, I am notifying the DXCC that I will publish this letter as an open letter to all HAMs involved in the DXCC program.
Jarda, OK1RD,OK7XX