[ADXA] Article - AI5P - Neutral Zones

[Richard Harris]

Glenn - for your use as you need. Please let me know when you
get OK.  73, Rick

>From the QSL Shoebox - Rick AI5P

These two deleted entities are probably in some of our ADXA members'
totals. They are remote and desolate and have interesting histories: The
Saudi
Arabian/Kuwait/Iraqi Neutral Zones.

The Saudi-Kuwaiti Neutral Zone was an area of 2,230 square miles
between the borders of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that was left undefined
when the border was established by the 1922 Uqair Convention. There was
 little interest in a more definite settlement of the Neutral Zone until,
in 1938, the
discovery of oil nearby. Oil concessions were granted by each government
to private companies and later to joint ventures. The rulers of Kuwait and
Saudi Arabia agreed in 1960 that the Neutral Zone should be divided.
This agreement was signed in 1967 and finalized in December, 1969.
Contacts with this entity on December 14, 1969, and before count
for DXCC.

The Saudi-Iraqi Neutral Zone was an area of 2,720 square miles on
the border between Saudi Arabia and the Iraqi Republic. This area
was also left undefined by the 1922 border agreement.  Administrative
division of the Neutral Zone was achieved in 1975 and a border
treaty concluded in 1981.  Contacts with this entity on December 25,
1981, and before count for DXCC.

Here are examples of these entities:

HZ3TYQ/8Z5 in the Saudi-Kuwaiti Neutral Zone for a SSB contact
with W3LOE on May 15, 1965. The operator was Vic Crawford, an
employee of ARAMCO (the Arabian-American Oil Company - now the Saudi
Arabian Oil Company), operating from the "weather shack" in the
desolate oil fields. His one-man DXpedition made 1,080 contacts with
55 countries. Note the KWM-2!

8Z4A in the Saudi-Iraqi Neutral Zone for a CW contact with N0XA on
November 15, 1979. This DXpedition was sponsored by the Jordanian
Radio Amateur Society in celebration of King Hussain's 44th birthday. A
total of
40,800 contacts were made. Special thanks were given to HH Prince Talal,
HZ1TA.
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