[OKDXA] Midway and Kure Islands Reinstated as DXCC entities

[Jerry Chouinard]

Thanks Jeff. Now I can rest easy. Been hard enough making the first 100!

Jerry - K5YAA

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> On May 11, 2017, at 1:37 PM, Jeff Martin <jeffmartin at valornet.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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