[Dx-qsl] Re: 6O0X operation question

[Bernie McClenny, W3UR]

Impossible!  Palestine received their prefix and country dialing code
per a response to Resolution 99 (Minneapolis, 1998) of the
Plenipotentiary Conference of the ITU.  No Amateur Radio operator has
that much clout!  Up until recently the UN, the US and others didn't
want Somililand to gain its independence, despite the fact that they are
more suitable than Somalia!  That is where the politics are taking
place, but not by amateurs!

73
Bernie, W3UR

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Bernie McClenny, W3UR
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-----Original Message-----
From: dx-qsl-admin@mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx-qsl-admin@mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of John Geiger
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 21:51
To: John Warren; dx-qsl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Re: 6O0X operation question

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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