Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Tom Wylie
So just delete them from the list and we dont have to worry or argue about them anymore :-) Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To answer your question, the 4 rocks (part of a 16 kms long atoll) of Scarborough Reef (which you can find back on all important maps) qualified to the DXCC rules at that

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread pa0wrs
To answer your question, the 4 rocks (part of a 16 kms long atoll) of Scarborough Reef (which you can find back on all important maps) qualified to the DXCC rules at that time (beginning nineties). Since then the rules have been changed. See DXCC-rules under 'Definitions': Island. At this time Scar

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Tom Wylie
TED]>, dx-chat@njdxa.org Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? This is great. Any idea when it will be activated ? Rod WC7N - Original Message - From: "Dan Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? The r

Re: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Ron Notarius WN3VAW
x27;t let us on Desecheo or Navassa... 73 From: WC7N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Jun 16 14:41:59 CDT 2006 To: Dan Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dx-chat@njdxa.org Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? This is great. Any idea when it will be activated ? Rod WC7N - Original Message

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread WC7N
This is great. Any idea when it will be activated ? Rod WC7N - Original Message - From: "Dan Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? The rarest entity in the worked all phone booths: http://www.

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread HK3CW
Why didn't I get the QSL first if I was a contributor? Rob, HK3CW - Original Message - From: "Bob Coomler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? And I'm still waiting for my QSL. D***!! Bob, W6RJ

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Bob Coomler
> list? > > 73 > > From: Dan Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri Jun 16 13:48:49 CDT 2006 > To: dx-chat@njdxa.org > Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? > > The rarest entity in the worked all phone booths: > > http://www.deuceofclubs.com/moj/moj

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Ron Notarius WN3VAW
According to the web page, sadly, the Mojave Phone Booth was removed and destroyed by PacBell circa 2000. I guess this puts it on the Deleted Phone Booths list? 73 From: Dan Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Jun 16 13:48:49 CDT 2006 To: dx-chat@njdxa.org Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] ne

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread n7ef
The idea that a rock is a country makes a LOT of sense to the country that owns it.  You get the undersea oil rights for a radius of 100 miles or some such...   Don N7EF   -- Original message from Tom Wylie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- > Oh, I care passionately about workin

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Dan Zimmerman
The rarest entity in the worked all phone booths: http://www.deuceofclubs.com/moj/mojave.htm 73, Dan N3OX Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread WC7N
Wylie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Joe Subich, W4TV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Peter W2IRT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "dx-chat List" Sent: Friday, June 16

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Zack Widup
I think it has happened more than once, in the history of DXCC, that someone found a new place they thought would qualify as a new country by the existing rules and also thought they could get there first, so they pushed to have that new country established on the list and then went and operat

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Tom Wylie
Oh, I care passionately about working them all, especially as I have only TWO to get. My initial point, appears to have been missed, that " how can a rock sticking out of the Ocean a few feet ever be classified as a Country or Entity?" It just makes the whole thing stupid, like working ligh

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread pa0wrs
DXCC has always been a mix of real countries and remote islands and land strips, also in the good old days (I remember exotic places like Minerva Reef, Serrana Bank, Desroches, Farquhar etc etc, most of them valid from the start of DXCC and deleted in the 70/80's). So DXCC does and did NOT mean DX

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-16 Thread Mike(W5UC) & Kathy(K5MWH)
At 09:23 PM 6/15/2006 -0700, Richard Diddams wrote: Sooo, who really cares about working them all?  ME.  Yes, all of the things you mention can be accomplished in a short time, but others in the pursuit of DXCC can not, and that is still what makes it worth the effort to try.  Yes, the new NOW g

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Richard Diddams
m Wylie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Joe Subich, W4TV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Peter W2IRT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; dx-chat List Date: 6/15/2006 2:23:09 PM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? Here we go again.All the American big guns have worked everything - so now we have to invent mo

RE: [DX-CHAT] New Rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Peter Penta
: Thursday, June 15, 2006 9:45 PM To: DX-Chat Subject: RE: [DX-CHAT] New Rule?? Ditto Dan ! The dedicated DX'er dosen't want "a playing field that needs leveled" ! Otherwise, what REAL FUN is there in it? Rod KA5EJX Original Message- I don't see why stay

RE: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Ron Notarius WN3VAW
That's why they now call them "entities" instead of "countries" -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Roland Guidry Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:18 PM To: 'Joe Subich, W4TV'; 'dx-chat List' Subject

RE: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Roland Guidry
t' Cc: 'Peter Dougherty'; 'Tom Wylie' Subject: RE: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? Peter wrote: > Personally, I wish they'd re-write the DXCC criteria entirely to get > rid of stuff which, if proposed today, wouldn't qualify (the 4U1UN/ITU > versus 4U1WB / 4U

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Dan Zimmerman
I don't see why staying alive for a long time and being at the helm of a station that absolutely could get through to every active entity ever shouldn't put you at the top of the honor roll. You've worked the most entities, you get to be at the top. That said, a subcategory for most current entr

RE: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
Peter wrote: > Personally, I wish they'd re-write the DXCC criteria entirely to get > rid of stuff which, if proposed today, wouldn't qualify (the > 4U1UN/ITU versus 4U1WB / 4U1VIC, etc); probably Scarborough Pimple > would fit into that category as well. Personally, I love the > challenge

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Peter Dougherty
At 03:23 PM 06/15/2006, Tom Wylie wrote: Here we go again.All the American big guns have worked everything - so now we have to invent more entities. Why dont we go back to the good old days when we worked Countries? D X C C Remind me what it stands for. If we want to call them entities

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Wylie
Here we go again.All the American big guns have worked everything - so now we have to invent more entities. Why dont we go back to the good old days when we worked Countries? D X C C Remind me what it stands for. If we want to call them entities ARRL should start a new award for WAEn

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Wylie
Bah - humbug - I only need Scarborough Reef! :-) Tom Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: --- Tom Wylie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does this mean we loose [sic] Scarborough Reef and other stupid rocks No. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-99

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
--- Tom Wylie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this mean we loose [sic] Scarborough Reef and other stupid rocks No. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863 USA +978-251-9933, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.ad1c.us Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems ht

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Tom Wylie
Does this mean we loose Scarborough Reef and other stupid rocks tom Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: Quoting from ARRL: -- quote -- The new text at Section II, Paragraph 1(c) shall read: "The Entity contains a permanent population, is administered by a local government and is located at least 800 km

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
--- Jim Reisert AD1C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see 3B8/Mauritius on either of these two > lists. What status change makes you think that 3B7/St. Brandon could become > a new entity? Let me clarify... Mauritius is a Point 1 country (political entity). 3B6

RE: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
t; [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Takeshi Yoshida > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:00 AM > To: dx-chat@njdxa.org > Cc: Zack Widup > Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? > > > I think I owe you an apology, because I'm not so good at English > and I may have wrong

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Jim Reisert AD1C
Quoting from ARRL: -- quote -- The new text at Section II, Paragraph 1(c) shall read: "The Entity contains a permanent population, is administered by a local government and is located at least 800 km from its parent. To satisfy the 'permanent population' and 'administered by a local government' cr

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Osten B Magnusson
" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule?? Hi Yosi! I don't think that St Brandon is administered by a local government! 73/DX de Osten SM5DQC[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Takeshi Yoshida"

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Takeshi Yoshida
Sorry, it's NOT "3B7/St.Brandon" but "3B6/Agalega". At 00:00 +0900, 2006/06/16, JA3AAW wrote: >I think I owe you an apology, because I'm not so good at English >and I may have wrong understanding about the rules. > >Anyone know if my word of 3B7/St.Brandon status is correct or not? > > ---

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Takeshi Yoshida
I think I owe you an apology, because I'm not so good at English and I may have wrong understanding about the rules. Anyone know if my word of 3B7/St.Brandon status is correct or not? 73, de Yosi JA3AAW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EM

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-15 Thread Zack Widup
It depends on where you live in the USA. That is not a polar path from here. I've worked 3B8CF with less than a watt and never had any trouble working other stations in that area. 73, Zack W9SZ On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Takeshi Yoshida wrote: > > Among 3B8/Mauritius, 3B7/St.Brandon and 3B6/Agal

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-14 Thread Charles Harpole
I remain ready for the ICE BERG as a DXCC entity.. lets make more and more. how about each of the 50 USA states... like soviet union??? More, more moore, more more more.yea ,,,73 Charles Harpole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdx

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-14 Thread Takeshi Yoshida
At 07:43 +0900, 2006/06/15, Harris_Ruben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I guess this means I don't need Scarborough reef. > >And "you" don't need Navassa, PeterI, Desecheo and a bunch more??? > >http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/06/14/100/ I'm not good at geography and have no idea how many ne

RE: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-14 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
> Although I'm quite good at Geography, I don't have the foggiest > what will become a candidate, however. Any guesses out there? > One other reflector I'm a member of suggested Swain's Reef > (supposedly out near Saipan). Looking over the Department of State list, it appears that American S

Re: [DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-14 Thread Peter W2IRT
At 06:43 PM 06/14/2006, harris_ruben wrote: I guess this means I don't need Scarborough reef. And "you" don't need Navassa, PeterI, Desecheo and a bunch more??? Not likely either way. What it will do, probably, is allow a few more to be created. Could you imagine the furore that would result if P

[DX-CHAT] new rule??

2006-06-14 Thread harris_ruben
Title: new rule?? I guess this means I don't need Scarborough reef. And "you" don't need Navassa, PeterI, Desecheo and a bunch more??? http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2006/06/14/100/ -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message, however a large number of electrons were terribly in