Ad, of the 5L2MS team has asked me to post this. I'm sure this is a
mistake and we'll see our Q count.
Don
N1DG:
Don,
In response to your email regarding the 5L2MS DX-pedition please find the
message below just send to the DXCC desk.
We think that some confusion was created by showing the picture of the
Africa Mercy as Mercy Ships crown jewel from this charity based hospital
ship organization.
All QSOs were made from the ELWA radio compound just outside Monrovia
with the call sign for land based operations (not the one we received for
on board activities)!
I understood that Bill is on holiday for a week, so probably the message
will be processed later. I also tried to put a message on the forum but I
have no access and subscribing fails so far. It will be helpful if
somebody can put our message below on the forum to prevent answering all
the mails send to us last hours
73 de
Ad
PA8AD
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Dear DXCC desk,
Last hours several questions were received regarding rejections of 5L2MS
claims.
To made sure that there is no misunderstanding about our 5L2MS activities
we want to inform you about our DX-pedition in more detail:
The DX-pedition:
- took place from October 3rd 24th 2007.
- adopted a Mercy Ships land based project (the Gaye Town Clinic)
- was made possible by Mercy Ships (logistics and an invitation
to get visa)
- received the EL0MS callsign for activities on board of the
Africa Mercy (the 0 in the callsign shows ship based activities)
- received the 5L2MS callsign for the land based activities for
this special event (the 2 in the callsign shows Monrovia based activities)
- all QSOs were made from the ELWA compound which is an area 10
miles out of Monrovia
- all QSOs were because of the ELWA compound land based
operation with the 5L2MS callsign
- no QSOs were made on board of the ship (no permission from the
captain and not counting for DXCC, so not a single QSO with EL0MS)
Details about our activities can be found in the attached report and on
the website <http://www.liberia2007.com/>www.liberia2007.com including
Operational Pictures and daily reporting on the weblog and on the QSL
card. During log checks we found out that also some RTTY and 80m CW pirate
activities were conducted. Because of this please be aware that there is
only one QSL card issued by 5L2MS which is shown below (front and back
cover, not showing the inner pages).
We can imagine that some confusion might be caused by the picture from the
ship Africa Mercy on QRZ.com and when starting our website. Please be
aware that these pictures are used as a homage to Mercy Ships and for
creating awareness for their unbelievable humanitarian work using their
hospital ships. It was Mercy Ships that made a visit to Liberia possible,
transported our equipment and made the arrangements at the ELWA radio
compound to host our radio activities.
We hope that this clarification prevents misunderstanding about our
DX-pedition.
In case of any question please feel free to ask.
On behalf of the 5L2MS team
Ad
PA8AD
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