[OKDXA] P5 Accepted for credit at DXCC desk

[K5TT]

Please put your P5 spots on the mail list.  Some of us still need it.

Jim


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From: <RHunt@tulsa.cc.ok.us>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 4:49 PM
Subject: [OKDXA] P5 Accepted for credit at DXCC desk


> Go get 'em gang !
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> From:                    af2c@njdxa.org
> Subject:                 [NJDXA-L] P5/4L4FN Approved
> 
> DXCC to Accept P5/4L4FN Contacts for Credit
> 
> NEWINGTON, CT, Apr 2, 2002--The ARRL has announced it will accept SSB
> contacts with P5/4L4FN in North Korea (Democratic Peoples' Republic
> of Korea) for DXCC credit. Operator Ed Giorgadze of the Republic of
> Georgia, has been active from the capital city of Pyongyang since
> early last November. Valid SSB contacts from the onset of the
> P5/4L4FN operation last fall may be submitted for DXCC credit,
> effective immediately.
> 
> "The ARRL has now received adequate evidence that the operation by
> Mr. Giorgadze is being conducted with the knowledge and approval of
> telecommunications officials in Pyongyang," said ARRL Membership
> Services Manager Wayne Mills, N7NG. "At the present time, this
> approval is limited to SSB operation."  Giorgadze has been operating
> with oral permission from North Korean authorities, but Mills said
> the ARRL is satisfied on the basis of  written information submitted
> that the P5/4L4FN operation conforms with DXCC rules and should be
> accepted for credit. Mills cited DXCC Rule 7, which states
> "Any Amateur Radio operation should take place only with the
> complete approval and understanding of appropriate administration
> officials." The rule continues, "In any case, credit will be given
> for contacts where adequate evidence of authorization by appropriate
> authorities exists."
> 
> Mills said the ARRL Awards Committee met and concurred that the
> operation should be accredited.
> 
> The P5/4L4FN operation is not a DXpedition. Giorgadze is employed by
> the United Nations World Food Program and often spends as much as 12
> hours a day on the job, operating in his off hours. It's expected
> that he will be in North Korea at least until July and possibly longer.
> He tried for more than two years to obtain permission to operate
> Amateur Radio and finally was given the okay last year to bring an
> ICOM IC-706MkIIG into the country. Initially using a 20-meter dipole,
> he now has installed a multi-band vertical and has been active on
> several bands. A favorite hangout has been 21.225 MHz (he works split
> and listens up). He's also been a frequent visitor to 10 meters.
> 
> While P5/4L4FN has been doing some RTTY operation in addition to SSB,
> those contacts are not yet acceptable for DXCC credit.
> 
> Bruce Paige, KK5DO, has been acting as QSL manager and liaison for
> P5/4L4FN. Paige offers an on-line log and additional news and
> information about the operation on his AMSAT Net Web site. Click on
> the "P5 North Korea" link.
> 
> Following the recent Ducie Island VP6DI DXpedition that racked up an
> estimated 40,000 QSOs, North Korea moved back into its long-held slot
> as the most-wanted DXCC entity. North Korea was added to the DXCC
> list in 1991, but actual amateur operations from there have been few
> and far between. The most recent was the brief P51BH operation by
> Martti Laine, OH2BH, in 1999, which netted just 263 contacts with the
> rarest entity. Laine was the first to activate North Korea in 1995,
> when a demonstration operation worked just a handful of contacts.
> 
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> 73, DX, & GL,    Ross
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