(Araucaria) Monk Apollo Speaks Out on Illegal Operation from Mount Athos

[Leonardo]

Bom dia amigos.

Recebi o texto abaixo do meu amigo Ademir – PY2SP.

 

Nele, o Monge Apolo explica o porque de Mount Athos não conceder licença
para radioamadores, inclusive com os últimos acontecimentos de operações
frustradas no enclave.

 

73 from PP1CZ - Leo.

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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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