[ADXA] Banned Countries

[Nick Kennedy]

I’m sure everyone remembers when some countries didn’t allow their hams to
call CQ, so they’d get around that with QRZ.  QRZ QRZ QRZ de <DXCALL>

Haven’t hear that in a while.

Yep, conditions were great in the DX test. I fooled around a bit and made a
bit more than an hour’s worth for N5DX.

73

NIck, WA5BDU

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 3:17 PM Dennis Schaefer <dennisw5rz at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I remember from way back, probably in the 80's, there was a station in
> Asia who was on 20M SSB begging for contacts and saying his country had
> been removed from the banned list.  I want to say it was VietNam, but XV5AC
> was active in the early 70's so maybe it was something else.  Maybe Vietnam
> was put on the banned list later after the war was over.
>
> Anyway, Dick Freeling, W5TIZ, was talking to others on the frequency, and
> he called the FCC.  He wanted to put the FCC employee on the phone and the
> FCC guy told him "don't put me on a damn phone patch".  Dickie relayed the
> info and I don't even remember what the word from the FCC was.  I just
> remember "he said don't put me on a damn phone patch".
>
> 73,
> Dennis/RZ
>
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 9:41 AM Steven Rutledge <crownhaven at bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>
>> There was a post on here the other day asking if the FCC had banned US
>> hams from contacting stations operating in contested territories, in this
>> case, Russia and Ukraine.  I can't find the original post.  Here is the
>> definitive answer to the DXAC from Bob Naumann, W5OV.'
>>
>> (There is no “banned countries list” as there was many years ago.  We are
>> free to work anyone on the bands.  You can choose to not work anyone you
>> want, but there’s no rule forcing you to do so.
>>
>> This situation between Russia and Ukraine is no different than how we
>> treat any disputed territory.
>>
>> The country issuing the callsign determines what DXCC they count for.
>>
>> RW7F counts as European Russia – Not Ukraine, and not Crimea.  In other
>> words, nothing special.
>>
>> The recent discussion of Scarborough applies the same rules.  The team
>> that was given a Philippine callsign of DX0NES to go to Scarborough was
>> disappointed to learn that they would count only as The Philippines and not
>> as Scarborough (Chinese).  They evidently decided to not risk their lives
>> going to Scarborough to be no more desirable than a station in Manila or
>> Quezon City.
>>
>> Scarborough is reportedly patrolled by the Chinese Navy on a regular
>> basis.
>>
>> I hope all of you had a chance to enjoy the exceptional conditions we had
>> for the ARRL DX CW Contest.)
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Robert E. Naumann  W5OV
>>
>> Director of Operations
>>
>>
>> Steve, N4JQQ, DXAC, Delta
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