[Dx-qsl] Entities

Sat Sep 14 22:25:01 2002

I think Hong Kong is still being treated as a "separate administrative
area." I don't know what the story is with Macao, if it's also being
treated that way or not. Also, I believe HK has an IARU society, but Macao
at present does not, but may have one soon -- that's also part of the entity
criteria. To be honest, I fully expected both to move to the Deleted list
after they were turned back over to the Bejing government.
As far as the prefixes go, Hong Kong retained the VS & VR prefixes -- that's
why Pitcairn changed from VR6 to VP6. I don't know if Portugal handed over
the XX prefix along with the territory.
John, you've asked a very good question. Thing is, it should be asked of
NC1L at the DXCC desk for the best answer.
73, ron wn3vaw
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Geiger <[email protected]>
To: Ron Notarius WN3VAW <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 8:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] Entities
Why are VR-Hong Kong, and XX9 Macao still on the list?
 As I understand it, they are now both part of China,
and should be using a B prefix, instead of the United
Kingdom and Portugese prefixes, respectively.
73s John NE0P
--- Ron Notarius WN3VAW <[email protected]> wrote:
> The confusion is understandable. There are
> basically two entities with the
> name Palestine. British Palestine ZC6 effectively
> ceased to exist after the
> 1948 hostilities, although it stayed on the list
> until June 1968 (if I
> remember correctly, the 1948 cease-fire line(s) and
> related areas were all
> that was left, and after the 1967 hostilities, even
> those were gone). I
> don't recall ever hearing of anyone operating from
> ZC6 Palestine after '48,
> though I'm sure if there was activity, someone will
> mention it!
>> The current Palestine E4 entity consists of only a
> portion of the original
> entity (the Gaza strip & the West Bank). So between
> the political and the
> geographical changes, it's understandable why E4 is
> considered for DXCC
> purposes to be a separate entity than ZC6.
>> If you think this one's bad, just try figuring out
> the 4 Germany entitie's
> one day! (It does make sense, but it also makes
> your head spin!)
>> The one I don't "get" is why they made (UN
> Administered) East Timor 4W a
> brand-new one instead of "reactivating" the old
> Portugese Timor CR8. The
> situation seemed analogous to the reactivation of
> Western Sahara S0. When I
> asked about it, I was told that Western Sahara was
> the exact same geographic
> entity as Spanish Sahara EA9 (Rio de Oro), but UNAET
> wasn't the exact same
> geographic entity (and that may well be, but it's
> not as obvious when you
> look at the map as Palestine is). I think a lot of
> that also has to do
> with who made the decision when... but that's
> another story.
>> 73, ron wn3vaw
>> When asked "If you had been in President Clinton's
> place, would you have
> resigned?",
> Republican Member of the House of Representatives
> Dick Armey replied:
>> "If I were in the President's place, I would not
> have gotten a chance to
> resign. I would be laying in a pool of my own
> blood, hearing Mrs. Armey
> standing over me saying, "How do I reload this damn
> thing?"
>> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 8:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] (no subject)
>>> OK thanks to all. I thought I had the country
> confirmed ok, but then this
> popped up as a new country and confused the heck out
> of me. I do have
> several E4 contacts confirmed , and this one popped
> up as a deleted
> country -
> thats what im gonna do, delete it.
> thanks again
> Danny
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