[OKDXA] Midway and Kure Islands Reinstated as DXCC entities

[Jeff Martin]

Don’t know... don’t have my June '58 QST handy... hi...
Jeff - K5WE


-----Original Message-----
From: OKDXA [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John Geiger
Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 1:33 PM
To: Oklahoma DX Association
Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Midway and Kure Islands Reinstated as DXCC entities

Thanks Jeff for the information. Why was the Cayman Islands originally
deleted for?

73 John AF5CC

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Jeff Martin <jeffmartin at valornet.com>
wrote:

> Per Bill Kennemer:
>  Deleting an Entity and bringing it back to the DXCC List because a more
> stringent review showed the error is not new. It was done with the Cayman
> Islands deletion in 1960.  QST, June 1958, page 97 and QST, September
> 1960, page 90.
>
> Jeff - K5WE
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OKDXA [mailto:okdxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John
> Geiger
> Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2017 1:16 PM
> To: Oklahoma DX Association
> Subject: Re: [OKDXA] Midway and Kure Islands Reinstated as DXCC entities
>
> Is this the first time the ARRL has ever reversed a deletion?
>
> 73 John AF5CC
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Jeff Martin <jeffmartin at valornet.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Midway and Kure Islands Reinstated as DXCC Entities -
> >
> > http://www.arrl.org/news/midway-and-kure-islands-
> > reinstated-as-dxcc-entities
> >
> >
> >
> > 05/11/2017
> > On March 31, 2017, the DXCC desk announced the deletion of Midway Island
> > and
> > Kure Island from the DXCC entities list. The stated reason for this
> action
> > was because of changes in the administration resulting from changes in
> > Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, formerly known as the
> > Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument, of which the
> Midway
> > Atoll National Wildlife Refuge and the Battle of Midway National
> Memorial,
> > the Hawaii State Seabird Sanctuary at Kure Atoll, and the Northwestern
> > Hawaiian Islands State Marine Refuge, of which they are all included.
> > After further review it has been found that the deletion of these two
> > entities is not supported by the changes that were made to the relevant
> > administrations. Therefore, the deletions from the DXCC list should not
> > have
> > occurred and the two entities, Midway Island KH4 and Kure Island KH7K,
> will
> > return to the DXCC list as separate entities.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeff - K5WE
> >
> >
> >
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