Dear fellow HAMs,
first of all I must apologize that it takes some time for me to respond to your applications of membership. It’s just that my priorities in life has changed and I rarely take time to engage with LARA activities, that includes issuing memberships and/or licenses.
There hasn’t been much interest in the past to form sort of a council or a group that would form a core of LARA. A group where tasks like handling requests, or organizing some events would be distributed among members of the group. Thing is that from it’s beginnings everything in LARA has been based solely on voluntary base, as LARA also never charged anything like membership or license fees. Maybe that sort of incentive would help members to take this organization more seriously. But on other hand LARA and me as it’s founder can’t provide services that normal national Amateur Radio Association would.
Liberland currently is still internationally non-recognized county or entity that lacks access to its claimed territory. And unfortunately it seems that it will stay that forever. LARA was formed in hope to unite HAMs that are interested in exotic, obscure places or an idea of a new country or nation and as part of that also its own Amateur Radio Society. As a long time close follower or part of the project named Liberland I have noticed that this original idea of new country has been steadily slipping away over years , so I began to lost interest in the project itself. Not that I wouldn’t like the original idea, but it became something that I didn’t subscribe to. And in this state as Liberland currently is, I also didn’t want to make false promises to my ham community. It’s hard to lead and promote a part of a project which LARA is, if you are not aligned anymore with a project as a whole. That is also one of the main reasons why I wasn’t so responsive to your application requests. I recognize that was wrong as you where having expectations and didn’t knew why they weren’t met.
I hope you now understand at least a part of position where LARA stands currently.
I will still respond to your requests for membership, but please understand that it can take some time to respond to them. As for licenses goes, I don’t know, if it’s fair to issue them, as they are practically useless. Issued callsigns are probably not legal to use on the air anywhere in the world, and since Liberland’s path has been leading away from original idea of statehood there is even less reason to have them. If you are anyway still interesting in getting callsign please write me I will see if there is enough of interest for 1L callsigns.
Best regards, 73,
Gregor Kocar, founder