How to get rid of competition in a hobby:
The DXCC Commission method
Please read carefully find out what the DXCC committee is able to do preserving itself to
protect US HAMs first places on a DXCC 160 meters standings !!!!!!
Introduction
First of all I would like to ask all readers of this article to read it carefully and monitor the context. Based on the facts listed below you would find how the DXCC Commission behaves. If I can advice, please do not waste your time / in 56 years in my case / building with HAM radio gears and antennas to reach the top. Because if you reach this goal then the DXCC Commission will destroy your demonstrable top result even at the cost of grossly breaking their own DXCC rules. My experience personally that this commission kicked me out of the 160m standings twice in 2009 and 2020. The DXCC commission fatally violated their own rules. I guess that the one reason for this was to protect positions of some stations located on top of the DXCC 160m standings.This looks like a Mafia activity. The activities of the commission are solely aimed to protect the interest of the selected HAMs.
On the other hand, the DXCC Commission is powerless against the new trends in our hobby like
using the remote QTHs on the opposite side of world for RXing or even RXing and TXing through the Internet.
That is for introduction. The rest I leave to you to make your own opinion.
1/ I applied 2nd time for DXCC 160m as OK1YQ on 25-June-2018 and I was admitted by score 348 countries DXCC and became number 1 again.
2/ I obtain call for submission all QSL cards for inspection in the ARRL as rules say. And I did so right after… see letter.
3/ The DXCC desk made long time investigation of all QSL cards with positive result and they admitted all 348 DXCC countries. See copy of E-mail below:
E-mail on 26-Jun-19
Jarda,
Thank you for your heartwarming story from your passion for DXing but it does not change the truth.
When we asked you to send all of your 160m QSL cards and your OK1YQ operator permit and you promptly complied to our request. Thank you.
We compared the cards to logs in LoTW and logs from your QSO partners and the cards we sampled were verified in this process.
It is true, as you stated, that you have credit for C21 from a card you submitted for a 160m CW contact with C21 country. Up to this point there is no reason for anyone to question your integrity.
73,
Norm Fusaro, W3IZ
Director of Operations
ARRL, the national association for Amateur RadioT
225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111–1494 USA
Telephone: (860) 594–0230 FAX: (860) 594–0259
e-mail: w3iz@arrl.org
web: www.arrl.org
4/ The DXCC office sent me back my QSL cards but only one third of them and destroyed very much. So I lost not only QSL cards confirmed QSOs on 160m band but also other bands which usually were on the same card.I do not know but this seems to me that is was intent ? Please do not send your QSL cards to the DXCC office if you do not have to loose one.
See below photo of package received.
5/ Based on call from the DXCC office was main application call OK1YQ was changed to OK1RD
25.01.20
Hello Jarda:
In DXCC, you have two accounts: OK1RD and OK1YQ. Because these two callsigns are from the country, they should be combined into one account.
Which callsign would you like me to use for this?
Thank you.
Sharon
Sharon Taratula
Awards Manager
ARRL Radiosport Department
American Radio Relay League
860–594–0269
and
28.01.20
Hello Jarda:
Thank you again for your quick response. I will use the primary call of OK1RD for your DXCC record.
Take care.
Sharon
Sharon Taratula
Awards Manager
ARRL Radiosport Department
American Radio Relay League
860–594–0269
Just for information that I was not this change initiator
6/ Then after that, it was quiet for a while until the next E-mail.
E-mail on 14-Feb-20
Dear Sharon
sorry to turn directly to you, but it seems to me to be the right way to go, to avoid any questioning of mine incidental further DXCC 160m application. It is true so :
I had nothing to call on the bands so I decided apply for DXCC on the other bands as well. I started to select QSL cards for DXCC on 40m band. I put together quite good score and during QSL 40m browsing I found QSL from 160m band among them. This is about QSL origin for my QSO with AH3C/KH5J from 1990 year on mentioned 160m band. I know I had this qso in my paper log, that time,but I was not able to find one before. This QSL is slightly damaged but all needed data are clearly seen on one. Since deciding on the validity of this ticket, it seems to me that it is fine, can only decide the ARRL DXCC office, I would like to send the QSL card directly to you instead of way via OK1MP. In case you agree I post you by registered mail this QSL card directly. You can investigate damage rate on place and in case decide if that QSL is acceptable for DXCC. Than I would apply for one.
Please advice me if this way above is O.K. for DXCC office.
Thank you for all and
best regards
Jarda, OK1RD
I have never applied for AH3C/KH5J and always have been correct follow the DXCC rules.
Please find bellow copies from my application the ARRL pages.
7/ I have got from DXCC desk answer as below:
E-mail on 14-Feb-20 answer
Hello Jarda:
Yes, please send the card direct to my attention.
Thank you.
Sharon
Sharon Taratula
Awards Manager
ARRL Radiosport Department
ARRL – The national association for Amateur Radio®
860–594–0269
8/ I sent next day a registered letter with QSL card to ask for appraisal not as for DXCC application.
9/ Some time later I have got an E-mail as below:
E-mail on 11-Mar-20
Jarda,
On March 4, 2020, we received a QSL Card that you submitted to ARRL for an OK1RD 160-Meter CW credit /my note: not truth compare with my letter above said „appraisal“ and then " consider to apply "/ (a QSL Card claiming a QSO with Jarvis Island dated April 15, 1990). That original card is being returned herein. The card you supplied includes a white adhesive label – applied over the original card QSO information section – with a circular stain (water or other) over the signal report.
As all QSOs from this 1990 expedition are viewable online, and as the original logs are still available from the participants for QSO verification, a review of these Jarvis Island 1990 log records has been conducted with a finding that:
This operation had no QSO with OK1RD on 160 meters on any mode, and in fact;
The group had no European 160-meter QSOs at all on April 15, April 16, or April 17, 1990.
As the submission of otherwise Invalid QSL Confirmations (Eg, the claimed April 14, 1990, Jarvis Island 160-meter CW Card) is a violation of ARRL DXCC Rules, you are Disqualified from DXCC Membership.
Your current OK1RD, OK1YQ and OK7XX DXCC records (Awards for all bands and all modes) will be expunged (deleted), and your OK1RD, OK1YQ and OK7XX call signs will be removed from all DXCC listings.
DXCC Program Section 1, Rules 12, 13, 14 and 15 refer to the DXCC Program Requirements, Audit processes, Code of Conduct, and Binding Requirements.
Enclosed also is a copy of the April 14, 2014, ARRL correspondence from Bill Moore, NC1L, regarding your DXCC status.
Sincerely,
Bart Jahnke, W9JJ
ARRL Radiosport Manager
Sent Via Letter – Courier and Email
10/ I reply right back and argue as follow:
E-mail on 11-Mar-20 answer
Bart,
is funny to read your report, all can see that you are trying to kick me off from the ARRL DXCC program. My result on 160m band lying in stomach of a lot of HAMs from US mainly. But you are maybe misinformed because I have not present this QSL card as application for the DXCC program at all. I sent this card to Sharon just for appraisal. That means this one cannot be the basis for my disqualification from the DXCC program. My DXCC score on 160m was approved and all submitted QSL cards were double checked by OK1MP as regional manager and directly in the ARRL HQ. Again the QSL you mention has not come through my DXCC 160m application and not through OK1MP. You will have to think out some other reason how to take me out from the DXCC program.
Sincerely Jarda Semotan OK1RD
PS: based on my experiences not all expeditions qsos can be found in the LoTW logs. The qsl card is decisive. I have not found mentioned QSO in my log as well because that time I used paper log.
11/ In spite of my clear arguments above the DXCC Committee took me out from the DXCC program.
As I said, make your own point.
Thank you for reading and sorry about my English -old man
Bart,
plus, you are, as comes from the discussion at Topband contesting.com you deliberately stated „**The card you supplied includes a white adhesive label – applied over the original card QSO information section – with a circular stain (water or other) over the signal report.“
This misled almost everyone that the AH3C/KH5 was edited by me. Since you had the QSL in your hand you knew and saw that there is nothing written under label. Illustrative example of how DXCC Committee works.
Based on my request for appraisal of the QSL follow DXCC rules your right was only to say " GOOD QSL or NOT ACCEPTED QSL.
You broke DXCC rules in a crude way by excluding me from DXCC. You're damaging a good name of the ARRL organization with your action.
Go on this way and
73 Jarda, OK1RD
The ARRL Awards Committee NN1N@arrl.org
Gentlemen,
I would like to ask you to decide my dispute with ARRL Radiosport Manager Mr.Bart Jahnke, W9JJ.
I have been active on amateur bands since 1964 with a special interest on 160 m band- As you know,
to build up and effectively operate amateur radio station on that band requires lot of an effort and time and the only reward could be the DXCC Program: the DXCC Award and the DXCC Standings.
My total score – 348 countries – on 160 m was finally confirmed after careful inspection of all QSL cards at the DXCC Desk (ref. 1) This meant that the people on first positions in the160 m Standings went one position down – and I can imagine – they were not charmed. This year I have found incidentally an another card – the story is in ref.2 – and i wanted to know : i) i it is O.K. for an application ii) if this not O.K. for the following reasons …… full-stop.
Instead of, Mr. Jahnke deliberately changed my request for a QSL card appraisal by the DXCC Desk
for an application to included it in the DXCC 160m standings with the consequences mentioned in the ref. 3. We can speculate about his real intention for this action or who is behind it but it is quite clear to me that purpose was to kick me off the DXCC program by any way. But such a deliberate act can only violate the integrity of the DXCC Program.
73 Jarda Semotan, OK1RD
the supplements : ref. 1 to ref.6 copies of E-mail correspondence the purpous was to kick me off the
Jarda,
There is no appeal process for disqualification in DXCC. The decision of the awards committee is final.
73,
Norm Fusaro, W3IZ
Director of Operations
ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio™
225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111–1494 USA
Telephone: (860) 594–0230 FAX: (860) 594–0259
e-mail: w3iz@arrl.org
web: www.arrl.org
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