[Dx-qsl] Re: 6O0X operation question

[John Geiger]

I understand that, so how did Palestine (a noncountry)
get a ITU block, when Somililand, which sounds much
more like a country, didn't?  I still smell some
personal politics involved here.

73s John NE0P


--- John Warren <nt5c@texas.net> wrote:
> John NE0P wrote:
> 
> >And of course Palestine, which is less of an actual
> >country than Somaliland, gets a prefix and DXCC
> >status.  Guess it helps to have Bernie physically
> >present in the country ready to operate when the
> >voting on prefixes or such takes place.
> 
> John,
> 
> Precisely to avoid the sort of "personal opinion"
> argument which you 
> describe, ARRL specified three criteria, at least
> one of which must 
> be met to produce a new DXCC Entity. (See the DXCC
> Rules, Section II, 
> 1 a, b and c).
> 
> 	- The entity is a UN member state
> 	- The entity has been assigned a callsign prefix
> block by the ITU
> 	- The entity has a separate IARU Member Society
> 
> Somaliland presently meets none of those; The
> Palestinian Authority 
> was assigned a prefix block by the ITU.
> 
> 73, John, NT5C.
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