Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:57:41 -0700 From: Stu Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Timor Leste
A petition was filed with the Chief Executive Officer of ARRL today seeking removal of UNTAET (United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor) from the DXCC entities list and for the addition of Timor Leste as an entity.
The DXCC2000 rule under which 4W was added reads:
"b. The entity has been assigned a call sign prefix bloc
by the ITU. A provisional prefix bloc assignment may be
made by the Secretary General of ITU. Should such
provisional assignments not be ratified later by the full ITU, the
Entity will be removed from the DXCC List "
The assignment was not ratified and UNTAET returned it to ITU which has reissued the block 4WA-4WZ to Timor Leste. It is the position of JA1BK and myself that the addition of 4W to the DXCC entities list was premature and that a mistake was made. This mistake has been acknowledged by one of the gentlemen who made it.
ARRL is comprised of people and has, in the past, acknowledged mistakes when countries were deleted under the former DXCC rules. Islands which proved not to have existed are an example and the island of Okinotorishima was deleted because it simply was mistakenly added to the list.
We expect that after due and hopefully prompt consideration ARRL will understand the fact that a mistake has been made and that Timor Leste will be added to the entities list.
There was a five day operation a few weeks ago in Timor Leste and there is a continuing operation there at the present time. The bulletins will have the information
WA2MOE
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