Hk3ra Cqww Dx Ssb 2008

Bogotá, October 29, 2008

CQ MAGAZINE WORLD WIDE DX CONTEST Dear Sirs: As the CQ Awards manager for Colombia, it is my responsibility to notify you of the following events related to the recently held SSB CQWW 2008 contest. - Just days before the contest I heard and worked HK3RA on CW. I had never heard this call sign on the air before. - This call sign was reported on many occasions on the DX clusters, during the week prior to the contest. It was reported on DX Summit between October 23 and 26. - During the contest, I heard the call on several bands and without any doubt; it was very active during the contest given the many reports seen. I qso’d with the station again on 40 mts on phone and talked in Spanish with him and discovered a very heavy foreign accent. He was reported in DX Summit as a “Russian speaking op”. - After the contest I gathered information pertaining this call and effectively HK3RA, belongs to a Colombian native, named Wolfgang Edmundo Torres Alfonso. This was easily verifiable logging into the Colombian Ministry of Communication web page data base for Colombian Hams. This license is an advance category license and is good until June 19, 2016. You can see this at the following address: http://www.mincomunicaciones.gov.co/mincom/src/user_docs/Archivos/Listados/Radioaficio nados2006.pdf : Qrz.com lists him as: Wolfgang Torres. P.O.Box 100658. Bogotá. COLOMBIA. - I spoke directly on the phone with Mr. Wolfgang Torres and he asserted me that he has never taken part in HF contests and does not practice CW and that obviously this operation was illegal as he did not loan or allowed his call sign to be used by other people. -I have also confirmed with the Ministry of Communication of Colombia, if they had allotted a special HK3RA call sign to be used in the CQWW DX SSB 2008 contest, they clearly established they had not provided that call. Nor did any person request a special call sign for the contest. Who used this call, knowledgably used it in a fraudulent manner. - Of the information I have gathered, the call HK3RA operated from a shack located on the hills near Bogota, close to the town of “La Calera” out side of Bogotá. This radio station is owned by HK1AR, Mr. Tony Rogozinki (W4OI), who has rented the place from HK3JE, and

has used it on several occasions before, not only for himself but for other illegal ham operations. - The person using the HK3RA call, was RA3CO, Mr. Dimitri Kryukov. - It is now confirmed that Mr. Kryukov also used this shack in the 2007 version of the CQWW DX CW contest using the call HK1AR, again fraudulently as a ham call in Colombia cannot be loaned and not used out side of the call area. Bogota is area 3 and he should have used HK1AR/3 or HK1AR/HK3. After investigating the events of this year I discovered his previous antics for the DX contest of last year. - Using the HK3RA call is illegal, as it violates several regulations of the Colombian Law. - It is a shame that foreign hams are taking advantage of the prestigious CQWW to operate illegally from our country, violating our ham regulations. - Due to the prior and as CQ awards manager for Colombia, I respectfully request that this person Dimitri Kryukov, RA3CO – HK3RA in the contest be disqualified in the CQWW DX SSB 2008 contest and as HK1AR during el CQWW DX CW of 2007. - Legal actions are now taking place in Colombia, through the Ministry o Communications against Mr. Rogonzinski, to rid HK1AR of his Colombian ham license and dismantle his illegal radio station in Colombia. At you request, I will forward copies of the legal papers that are now being placed in our courts against these people.

Best Regards,

Juan Camilo Rodriguez HK3CQ