It is regrettable the manner reality has been distorted with the operation of RA3CO, Dimitri Kriukov and YL2KL, Girts Budis in Colo mbia during the CQWW DX past contests. This is all really very amusing to read the comments of people who venture to speculate, providing false accusations against me with out even knowing the truth of the facts, coming to false conclusions, concluding about facts they don’t know and even adjusting the Colombian law to advocate for illegal operations. For this I do have to clarify the following:

- The complaint submitted to the Ministry of Comm unications of Colombia was not only signed by me, HK3CQ, but also by 20 other recognized and noted dxers and conte sters in Colombia. We are not unknown or anonymous; we ar e active hams and knowledgable of Colombian ham regulatio ns and international contests. Among others, our complain t was signed/endorsed by HK3W, HK3CW, HK6DOS, HK1X, HK6P, HK3O, HK3TU, HJ3LAO, HJ3MQ, HK3GXI, HK3PSA, HK3GAL, HK3L GO, HK3Q, HK4KDO, HK1KXA, HK3JCA, HJ3LAO and HJ3MQ beside s HK7AJE as the President of the Federation of Ham Clubs in Colombia, FRACOL (for its Spanish acronym), the nation al association which groups the largest number of hams in the country. Some of those who endorsed the complaint ar e not even members of FRACOL, I mention this as it has be en said that the signatures had been wrongfully acquired, when on the contrary it was a spontaneous, conscientious and independent action. From the date the complaint was filed to the Ministry, many other Colombian hams have exp ressed their support and today, without a doubt, many oth ers would additionally endorse the complaint.

- 4 L5A and LU5DX have tried to diminish the accusations agai nst RA3CO and YL2KL throwing dirt at HK3CQ with false and ridiculous accusations. Remember that not only HK3CQ has complained, in defense of the dignity and honesty of ham radio in Colombia but a number of other Colombian hams h ave endorsed this action, as many other hams from differe nt parts of the world. Now 4L5A and LU5DX would have to f abricate more lies against all the signees and the facts would still be the same, RA3CO and YL2KL violated Colombi an ham regulations and the rules of the CQWW DX operating without a license and operating using a lent call, expre ssly prohibited by our ham legislation, where guest opera tors are also prohibited. Section 9 of Article 76 of Decr ee 2058 of 1995, of the Colombian Ham regulations; specif y that the holder of a ham license in Colombia “cannot allow the use of their call sign to any other person�. Article 16 of the same Decree reads: “To be able to ope rate as a ham radio operator, a license must be obtained from the Ministry of Communications, previously having ap proved the requirements indicated in this Decree�. Ther efore, the accused did not file for a license, they simpl y and abusively took the call signs of other hams; RA3CO did it twice, in 2007 and 2008, knowingly. Maybe HK1RA di d lend his call (he has also been included in our complai nt) but HK3RA, Wolfgang Torres, never lent his call and w as never even requested to do so.

- Evidently I H K3CQ, sent the information to K3EST advising about the ab normality and requesting DQ. It was the least I could do, being the CQ checkpoint for Colombia, besides all who si gned the letter knew about this. Therefore the actions ha ve not been solely on my part, nor have they been secret, everything has been public, transparent and in writing f or everybody to see.

- The aforementioned means t hat I never violated the good faith principle. On the con trary, who violated the code were the unfortunate hams th at took a risk, operating illegally knowingly, but looked the other way, thinking they wouldn’t get caught, dece iving the ham community worldwide. The CQWW contest commi ttee was also deceived as logs were sent, knowing they ha d acted illegally.

- It would be very interesting that LU5DX unveiled the names of the Colombian hams that according to him did not endorse our complaints. This is not a poll or a probe for opinions, where the majority w ins. This is about the truth and the law, all so simple. It would be amusing to know the calls of the HK’s that LU5DX says he contacted and they, if they exist, have no legal bearing and even less ham ethics or plain ethics fo r that matter. These hams should then promote changes in our legislation to change into legal what today is illega l, promoting self assignment of call signs, no licensing and radio anarchy. Sounds great doesn’t it?

- A lso it was said that why did we not act before. If it wer en’t for the operation of RA3CO it would all be still u nknown, but due to his overwhelming hunger for another wi n, he decided to cross the line again (2008) and shoot fo r the stars the second time, if he wasn’t caught the fi rst time why would he the second? We discovered the illeg al operation of 2007 by looking at the results of the CQW W of 2007, where it clearly specifies that he operated as HK1AR. From this some local hams became suspicious and k nowing that behind all this was HK1AR (W4OI) further rese arch was performed finding the rest of the irregularities we listed in our complaint to the Ministry of Com. We ar e not professional PI’s to investigate the legality of every HK call on the airwaves but this came about because we heard the call HK3RA being used before and during the contest from somebody on CW, knowing that the legal owne r of the call, Wolfgang Torres, is not a contester and do es not know the code. We asked him directly and found the string that led us to the whole story behind that call a nd others in years prior. Simple story!

- The tale that HK3CQ created the story so he could rent his statio n is despicable! I have never rented my place and never w ill. Fortunately I live from my work as an economist, and PhD in history; I work in one of the most prestigious un iversities of my country, and an advisor and consultant a nd have the honor of being the VP of the Colombian Academ y of History, without deepening further into my résumé. Therefore, I do not need to rent my ham shack. This lie was likely made-up by Anthony Rogozinsky HK1AR (W4OR) to discredit me, misinform and conceal his illegal operation s. The facts are simple: A few years back when Mr. Rogozi nsky came to Colombia, when I and others did not know of his antics, I lent (not rent) my ham station in my farm. From there he operated as 5K5Z, I traveled with HK3CW to check on him and ask him why he was operating as 5K5 when he should have operated as 5K3. He said it had been a mi stake from the Ministry of Communications. At least on th at occasion he did file for a legal license. The “mista ke� … I never believed in, the ministry is very cauti ous with the paperwork and mistakes are corrected before any operation Once Alberto Silva, LU1DZ, asked me for a Q TH to rent to operate from Colombia and I provided Mr. Ro gozinsky’s place in Cartagena, sending him the link. I never said I rented a place, I just told him of that plac e, the only one I knew of at the time. Later and slowly I and other Colombian hams began to understand the type of person Mr. Rogozinsky really was and began to distance o urselves from him. We also later knew of his EBay scams ( he has had more than 34 eBay names and has been kicked of f 33 times!). Now he resurfaces with false accusations to stand up for his illegal actions.

- If any ham de cided to travel to Russia, Georgia or Argentina for a CQW W contest and use RA3CO, 4L5A or LU5DX or any other inven ted call, without any regard to local ham regulations, wh at would be the reaction of the impersonated hams? Would they disqualify them? Well this is the case, here and it is totally incomprehensible for us that some out there ar e pretending to justify these illegal operations, absolut ely incredible!

- It is absurd to think that beca use the CQWW contest committee has not DQ’d anybody we are promoting a boycott against them, we are not as dumb as you think we are. This issue has other connotations an d we trust that the contest committee will value our comp laints and take the appropriate decisions. We will contin ue to participate and enjoy contests from Colombia, but w e will not turn our heads to illegal operations, this is our land and it deserves respect.

- CQ has reques ted a formal response from the Ministry of Communications of Colombia. If this has not been submitted yet, it is b ecause they have not taken any actions yet, it is not bec ause they have denied our complaints, this issue is taken very seriously in Colombia and the Ministry does not act without taking the appropriate and legal actions against ham operators without making it’s own investigations. For you who still after all our research and evidence sti ll do not believe our findings, just ask RA3CO and YL2KL for their legal operating license in Colombia, anybody wh o has operated legally from Colombia in the past will sur ely provide their license. We requested this to the CQWW contest committee more than a month ago. Will we ever see a legal license from Colombia from any of these two “h ams�? I believe not!