[HCDX] RE: XEBAL 1470 AND ESPACIAL 1390

[Andrea Lawendel <lawendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When Mr. Österholm "commented" our report from L'Ago, Liguria, 
several weeks ago arguing in Hard-Core Dx list that the same logs 
apparently were, we quote, "a severe mis-interpretation, a bad April 
joke or a result of a total lack of DX-experience", we firmly asked 
for his apologies.

We offered to send a duplicate of our tapes as an evidence of some 
loggings we always claimed were made in exceptional conditions. 
Indeed, far from a desire of insincere compliments and applause, as 
Mr. Österholm unfairly implies, we wanted that to be discussed, on a 
true scientific basis. He responds now with detailed arrogance and, 
far from apologizing, he is quite explicit in his accusations: given 
their many "question marks" our tapes might be counterfeited, and our 
loggings never happened, at least in the circumstances we described. 
Clearly, what we submitted was a sequence of excerpts extracted from 
an original recorded material which we never claimed to be continous. 
During all three sessions we pushed on the pause button several 
times, as many Dxers use to do with their cassette recorders.  The 
seemingly fragmentary nature of our tape has been used - in good or 
bad faith - as a pretext to attach to it those insulting question 
marks.

Since Mr. Österholm original mistake now appears to having been 
actually aggravated by his "analysis" of the recordings we 
voluntarily submitted for peer reviewing, we believe we deserve some 
conclusive remarks on this sad story. But we don't want to stretch 
Hard-Core-Dx members' and our excellent host's patience beyond any 
understandable limit. For those of you wishing to get exhaustive 
information and our full response regarding this sad querelle, here's 
the link to our site, Faiallo.org:

http://www.faiallo.org/sequel.html

We do not intend to speculate further on such behavior. Several 
supportive messages we're receiving by highly respected members of 
our community seem to testify about a general willingness to refuse 
it as a whole. If reciprocal trust must be the strongest regulating 
force in serious technical debates on Hard-Core and other DX lists, 
we can't help feeling Mr. Österholm did actually make offensive - and 
let us say racist - assumptions and should really withdraw from 
these. It would seem Mr. Österholm is looking at his detailed albeit 
arrogant letter (and we take the opportunity to sincerely thank him 
for the precious time he and his friends devoted to us, with 
questionable results we must add) as a honorable way out. Well, it 
simply isn't. On the contrary, it makes for a double offense.

We wouldn't want to comment on the position of three other gentlemen 
involved in this hardly scientifical review, either. Mr. Henrik 
Klemetz has already published his apologies in an other list, and we 
thank him for that. If others, with Mr. Österholm, still believe our 
tapes were deceptively faked, we don't think there's much to add to 
our statement, except perhaps that we also regret heated expressions 
and bad feelings on our side in the past.


73s
Rocco Cotroneo, Andrea Lawendel, Enrico Oliva
Brasil and Italy
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