[OKDXA] Mt. Athos

[Kim Elmore]

I got curious and so looked up some stuff about Mt Athos. About all I 
can say is that "it's complicated." Overall, it's a *very* weird and 
strange entity, right up there with SMOM...

73,

Kim N5OP

On 5/6/2019 10:02 AM, Roger Simpson wrote:
> I have been following the OKDXA thread regarding Monk Apollo's death. 
> There is a writeup regarding Monk Apollo on today's Daily DX. It was 
> written by Kostas SV1DPI. According to that writeup the Monastery of 
> Docheiariou is going to have another monk obtain an amateur radio 
> license.
>
> I only worked Monk Apollo once. It was on 17m on RTTY. I just happened 
> to be at the right place at the right time and heard him in a QSO and 
> called him after that QSO and he came right back. This was in May of 
> 2011.
>
> I don't know why Mount Athos is considered a DXCC country. It is 
> obviously NOT a "separate political administration" because people 
> there have licenses issued by Greece. Also, it is not a separate 
> physical place such as an island, like Hawaii, which is part of 
> another country but separated from it geographically by at least a 
> certain distance. I am not an expert on the DXCC rules but it seems to 
> me like Mount Athos is more like Oklahoma which is part of the United 
> States.  I think for DXCC purposes among the requirements for an 
> "entity" is that the "entity" is listed by the US Dept of State as a 
> Country and/or the country has a recognized Amateur Radio society.
>
> I think the situation with the Vatican and well as SMOM, for example, 
> don't apply to Mt. Athos because the Vatican and SMOM have call sign 
> blocks assigned by the ITU.
>
> 73  Roger  K5RKS
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Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP 
SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)

/"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in 
practice, there is." //– Attributed to many people; it’s so true that it 
doesn’t matter who said it./