[South Florida DX Association] Fwd: Netherlands Antillies - DXCC changes

[Bill Marx]

Netherlands Antillies - DXCC changes   - from www.dxer.org

The end of a country - The Netherlands Antilles - With a 99% certainty many things are about to change for the people and all radio amateurs in the Netherlands Antilles. On October 10, 2010 the Netherlands             Antilles will cease to exist as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the islands will emerge with several new statuses:
St. Maarten and Curacao will become an independent country within the Kingdom and will be granted the same status that Aruba attained in 1986.
Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius (also called BES islands) will be given the status of a public body (a kind of special municipality) in the Netherlands and will therefore fall directly under Dutch rule.

The two current DXCC entities of PJ2/PJ4 Leeward Islands and PJ5/PJ6/PJ7 Windward Islands are expected to be deleted.
St. Maarten (PJ7) will become a new DXCC entity.
Curacao(PJ2) will become a new DXCC entity.
Bonaire (PJ4) will become a new DXCC entity.
Saba (PJ6) along with St. Eustatius (PJ5) will become a single DXCC entity due to their proximity to each other.
 In short, 2 entities will be disappearing, but 4 will come back!


 A large multi-national group are planning on operating from Bonaire from 10th though 24th October to activate this new DXCC entity. They will be operating from six different locations around the island. See their web page for full information. 
http://www.bonaire2010.com


 A second group led by Bob, K4UEE will be active from Saba during the same two week time frame. 
http://www.saba2010.com/ 

 Another large group of operators will be active from Sint Maarten from October 10th through 20th.
http://www.stmaarten2010.com/index.html 

 K8ND is expected to be active as PJ2/K8ND from Curacao as well.