[KCDXC] Fwd: Re: Kosovo

[Mike ZooLoo]

--- Bruce Frahm K0BJ <brucefrahmk0bj at gmail.com> wrote:

> To: "Jim" <aa0mz at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Kosovo
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:33:07 -0600
> From: Bruce Frahm K0BJ <brucefrahmk0bj at gmail.com>
> 
> Dear Midwest Division member,
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for taking time to contact me regarding
> Kosovo and DXCC as a result 
> of the postcard campaign from W9KNI W6SZN and W3UR.
> 
> 
> 
> Let me clarify some points. The reason ARRL "rushed"
> to comment on Kosovo 
> was that members were asking questions about whether
> YU8/OH2R would count 
> for a "new one." Reading the DXCC rules makes it
> clear that it would not.
> 
> 
> 
> The use of  a YU prefix as in YU8/OH2R amounts to an
> acknowledgement that 
> Serbia was the licensing authority.
> 
> 
> 
> Kosovo is an unusual case.  Time will tell just how
> unusual. I don't favor 
> allowing Kosovo by exception. I do think there are
> reasons to consider 
> looking at new ways to determine or adjudicate DXCC
> "parent" entities. 
> Removal of the IARU society method of determining
> parentage was an 
> unfortunate outgrowth of overanxious courting of
> certain island radio clubs 
> to obtain IARU membership, distracting from the
> purposes of IARU. It may be 
> possible to find some criterion which could be
> easily determined and would 
> lead to a more balanced way to label an entity as a
> DXCC parent.  The 
> language describing "event dates" is not airtight,
> but the application of it 
> has been pretty consistent. If the DXCC rules were
> to be changed I would 
> anticipate that resultant event dates would likely
> be no earlier than the 
> effective date of the changes.
> 
> 
> 
> The Programs & Services committee (and its earlier
> iterations) have always 
> been my biggest committee interest within ARRL. This
> year I am the brand-new 
> chair of PSC, the committee which has oversight of
> awards and thus DXCC.  It's 
> an interesting task and this Kosovo issue is making
> it more interesting than 
> I'd expected!
> 
> 
> 
> To date I've had two contacts supporting the
> postcard lobbying position and 
> five opposed to it.  I anticipate that as mail
> deliveries increase and 
> emails taper off those relative ratios may swap.
> 
> 
> 
> Your interest in DXCC and ARRL is greatly
> appreciated. I trust we can find 
> the best way possible to run the DXCC program in
> accordance with fairly 
> applicable rules, and allow for recognizing
> inevitable changes when it 
> becomes clear those changes have occurred.
> 
> 
> 
> 73  Bruce K0BJ
> 
> 



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