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"Association of Amateur Radio Kosova" (Shark) is not admitted to the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), although Pristina in the campaign, which cost a lot, helped the Dutch, Croat and Finn. On a recent poll in the IARU, "Republic of Kosovo" has not received the recognition in the world ether, because her admission to the equal membership of the Union, which would involve the prerogatives...


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ARRL Board Okays Changes to DXCC Program, VHF and Above Contesting Rules The ARRL Board of Directors has tweaked the DX Century Club (DXCC) rules to clarify and expand their recognition of remotely controlled station technology. It also has added a rule that puts greater ethical responsibility on operators with respect to remotely controlled operation. In addition, the Board adopted changes...


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27 May 2012 Mali's Tuareg rebel National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine Islamist militants have agreed to merge and create an independent Islamic state in the north of the country, a rebel spokesman said on Saturday. The deal between MNLA, which has said it wants an independent secular state in the north, and the al Qaeda-linked Salafist Ansar Dine, which had wanted...


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The DXCC Desk Clarifies Russian Prefixes Which Count for European Russia For the purposes of the DXCC and WAC awards, the following Russian prefixes count as European Russia: Any call with the prefixes UA through UI and the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Any call with the prefix U and the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Any call with the prefixes RA through RZ and the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Any...


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Do you remember the entity grouping FS and FJ islands ? In those days, they were both communes of the department of Guadeloupe, and obviously did not meet the criteria to be counted as 2 separate islands. Do you remember that on 14 December 2007, FJ was added to the list of DXCC entities, following the publication on the Department of State list of special sovereignty territories ON THAT DATE, while...


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Just received news from "DX_World" by Twitter that K6HFA plans to work from Tuvalu with callsign T2X. I was really surprised (!) For further operation, if he will use my call sign, PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME your QSL cards to avoid the maze and confusion. For these operators (i.e. K6HFA ('new T2X'), WA3FPK ('new 9X0A') and others...) I strongly recommend a visit at QRZ.COM from time to time See...


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