Dear friends
We sadly announce to Amateur Radio community that 3C2MD, our long awaited expedition to Equatorial Guinea, will be postponed to unknown future date because a sudden stop to all the Amateur Radio licenses declared by the local Government.
The reason of that decision has been due to “problems with license granted to two foreigner citizens” that, according to the local news, tried to operate from “sensitive part of the Country” without all the necessary permissions in the early part of September.
You may read yourself the on-line press articles about the fact: HERE
Because their behaviour, the two foreigners have been obliged to stop their radio operations, so they decided to back home before they planned.
Understandably, the local Governement suspended all the licenses with the aim to revise the procedures of requesting the permission of operating from the country, so, few days ago, we received from ORTEL (the local agency of Telecom) the official communication that the license to our expedition, even if we fulfilled all the administrative requests, was suspended till new Government’s decision (anyway our license will expire in the end of next month of November).
We regret for the situation but we are sure that all the people who was waiting for us on-air will understand that there is not any responsability on our side of this unespected outcome.
We are contacting all our supporters (Corporate, Associations and Individuals) to refund them.
We will back very soon with more details.
Thank you.
Ant
I8KHC
3C2MD Team leader.