The American Radio Relay League despises thousands of catalan radio amateurs who have signed the petition to include Catalonia in the DXCC countries list. The ARRL must recognize Catalonia as a DXCC entity/country. The ARRL is deaf and dumb. It is inadmissible that it does not respond to the request of thousands of catalan radio amateurs.

Catalonia, a nation of Europe from more than one thousand years, and the catalan radio amateurs has the right to ask the DXAC Committee to add Catalonia in the DXCC countries/entities list. We just would like to correct the historical injustice and draw the close attention of the DXAC Committee and the American Radio League (ARRL) board of directors to this fact.

Scotland, Balearic Islands, Ceuta & Melilla, Canary Islands, England, Wales, Man, Northern Ireland and Jersey counts as a separate countries in various contests and for various certificates. These territories are not independent states, like Catalonia. The only “argument” recalled in support of denying DXCC country status to Catalonia seems to be: “If we accord DXCC country status to Catalonia, we’ll be flooded by petitions to have the same status conferred on similar territories”.

Such a fear is baseless because there are few similar countries like Catalonia. There should consequently be no difficulty taking a decision to treat Catalonia as a DXCC country.

Despite the foregoing, Catalonia continues to be denied DXCC country status. This patently illogical and inequitable situation cries out for resolution, even if the unusual step of overriding the DX Advisory Committee’s recommendation has to be taken.

The ARRL board of directors would be remiss in carrying out its own duties as an elected body if it did not reserve to itself the right to reverse what it found to be a flawed finding by an advisory committee. A preferable path, of course, would be for the DXAC itself to reconsider the matter.

Therefore, we request the ARRL board directors, Mr. Richard A. Roderick (K5UR), President of the American Radio Relay League, grant DXCC country status to Catalonia.

We inform you that we have opened a campaign on change.org where more than two thousand Catalan radio amateurs have signed a petition requesting that Catalonia be recognized as a DXCC country.

Mr. Richard A. Roderick, the question is: Are you going to despise and ignore the majority (51%) of catalan radio amateurs?. Remember, decisions are made by people voting.

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Associacions de radioaficionats d’Osona.

Ràdio Club Osona, EA3RKO és una associació de radioaficionats fundada el 22 de juliol de 1989 per EA3FHP, diversos radioaficionats amb llicència i també per CB-istes.

Més endavant, el 29 de novembre de 1997, EB3GKE, EA3FHP i Ramon Tirado Tirado funden l’associació Unió de Radioafeccionats d’Osona, EA3URO.

Finalment, el 26 de juliol de 2011 es constitueix l’associació Ràdio Club Vic, 1C3VIC fundada per EA3FHP i dos radioaficionats aspirants a obtenir la llicència.

Ràdio Club Osona, EA3RKO
Inscrita al Registre d’Associacions de la Generalitat de Catalunya, secció 1a del Registre de Barcelona, amb el número 11.271
NIF: G59520585
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Unió de Radioafeccionats d’Osona, EA3URO
Inscrita al Registre d’Associacions de la Generalitat de Catalunya, secció 1a del Registre de Barcelona, amb el número 20.328
Reconeguda per la Direcció General de Telecomunicacions i inscrita amb el número 185
NIF: G61655098
EA3URO@protonmail.com

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Ràdio Club Vic, 1C3VIC
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1C3VIC@protonmail.com