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Bogotá, October 29, 2008CQ MAGAZINEWORLD WIDE DX CONTESTDear Sirs:As the CQ Awards manager for Colombia, it is my responsibility to notify you of thefollowing 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 callsign on the air before.- This call sign was reported on many occasions on the DX clusters, during the week prior tothe 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 veryactive during the contest given the many reports seen. I qso’d with the station again on 40 mtson phone and talked in Spanish with him and discovered a very heavy foreign accent. He wasreported in DX Summit as a “Russian speaking op”.- After the contest I gathered information pertaining this call and effectively HK3RA, belongsto a Colombian native, named Wolfgang Edmundo Torres Alfonso. This was easily verifiablelogging into the Colombian Ministry of Communication web page data base for ColombianHams. This license is an advance category license and is good until June 19, 2016. You cansee this at the following address:http://www.mincomunicaciones.gov.co/mincom/src/user_docs/Archivos/Listados/Radioaficionados2006.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 nevertaken part in HF contests and does not practice CW and that obviously this operation wasillegal 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 aspecial HK3RA call sign to be used in the CQWW DX SSB 2008 contest, they clearlyestablished they had not provided that call. Nor did any person request a special call sign forthe 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 thehills near Bogota, close to the town of “La Calera” out side of Bogotá. This radio station isowned by HK1AR, Mr. Tony Rogozinki (W4OI), who has rented the place from HK3JE, and
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