[Dx-qsl] Monk Apollo Speaks Out on Illegal Operation from Mount Athos

Sun Jul 26 12:42:39 EDT 2015

That you took it to mean that Apollo must approve is surprising.Al 
 On Sunday, July 26, 2015 7:45 AM, Ron Lago <ac7dx at comcast.net> wrote:

 And Baldur got some ham buddies shot dead when he tried to go where he 
wasnt wanted. I question many of his operations and will always wonder 
if he is a "Romeo" clone
73
Ron
On 7/25/2015 11:17 PM, Kostas SV1DPI wrote:
> FYI I translated what Monk Apollo wrote and here it is:
>>> It is known that many radio amateurs, many years ago, want to come and 
> operate from Mount Athos. The older hams know that I helped in the 
> past a radio amateur team from Thessaloniki Greece to come and operate 
> from Virgin Mary’s Garden. Most of you know also that the Mount Athos 
> refuse a license to everyone the last years. Maybe you have forgotten 
> that this is a result the way Baldur DJ6SI tried to fool the monks to 
> operate illegally.
>> Unfortunately instead the history guides us, we have seen new tries to 
> fool the monks the last time.
>> Some time ago, some Latvian hams came in Mount Athos and tried to 
> operate without any license. They claimed that they had an oral 
> permission. Of course they had neither oral or written license and 
> Mount Athos went them out. But their try, even they had not the right 
> documents, was not good for Mount Athos reputation. Many hams because 
> of his desire to have a QSO, blamed Mount Athos for this.
>> After a short time, a Greek radio amateur operated from Mount Athos. I 
> received many messages asking if he is legal or not. He is claimed 
> that he has a license from a monastery for training operation without 
> to have in mind the Greek law, which says:
>> “in specific cases and when special security has taken, the owner of 
> the station with a valid license may, for educational purpose and 
> aiming to progress of amateur radio, to allow the use of his station 
> to a third person who is not radio amateur, under his responsibility, 
> supervision and instructions, for a short time, not bigger than 20 
> minutes. In such cases he must sign as /T (training)”
>> But his license is NOT valid because he has not the Holy Council’s 
> license as the Greek law says:
>> “A special call to be issued for operation from Mount Athos, it is 
> necessary you have thw written permission of Holy Council”
>> So we speak for another try to fool the Monks. The same negative 
> picture again.
>> Finally this is what we want? We want to operate even we fool the 
> monks? Even we make something bad for Mount Athos? Do we feel ok if we 
> do something like this? And finally are these actions against ham 
> radio because all these make a far dream a future dxpedition?
>> Mount Athos is a source of Light that illuminates all of us and a 
> Beacon of Orthodoxs through the Centuries.
>> I asked the Holy Council if a license has been given and they answered 
> negatively. The Holy Council having in mind the illegal operations of 
> Baldur DJ6SI, the willing of Latvians who wanted to operate without a 
> license, the illegal operation of SV2/SV1RP/T or /A at 12 June 2015 
> and many received applications to operate from Mount Athos, sent a 
> decision (doc. Nr F.2/27A/1482/28-6-2015) to the 20 Monasteries of 
> Mount Athos to make all these clear. With this document, the Holy 
> Community says that if someone outside Mount Athos wants to operate, 
> he needs a special call and the written permission of Holy Council. 
> Also is mentioned that all the answers in relatively applications for 
> a license until now were negative. So that means all the operations 
> until now are illegal.
>> I want to ask everyone to behave more carefully. In our life in 
> general, it is better to try something without to offend others, or to 
> raise the values and institutions, trying to achieve our goal 
> preserving the law and ethics.
>> Monk Apollo from Docheiariou Monastery.
>>> 73 Kostas SV1DPI
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