Dave: Can you give me an "official" statement about how Crimea is being handled please—I'm certain whatever I send to him will wind up plastered around the Internet. Thanks & 73, Doug Doug Rehman, K4AC Director Southeastern Division ARRL—The National Association for Amateur Radio® doug@k4ac.com www.arrlse.org www.facebook.com/arrlse -----Original Message----- From: Joe Subich, W4TV [mailto:w4tv@subich.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 11:00 AM To: k4ac Subject: Fwd: [dxlab] Warning: Crimea Doug, Any reply from NC1L? It's been more than a week since Russia annexed Crimea and plenty of time to announce that the rules will be followed. If they're not going to announce that the rules will be followed, when are they going to add Kosovo, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Abkhazia (UF6V) and S. Ossetia all of which are similar "disputed territory" to the DXCC list? 73, ... Joe, W4TV -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Fwd: [dxlab] Warning: Crimea Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:25:42 -0400 From: Joe Subich, W4TV <lists@subich.com> To: Doug Rehman <doug@k4ac.com> Doug, When is the ARRL DXCC Desk going to follow the rules and announce that stations in Crimea no longer count for DXCC? Rues are rules - failure to enforce them to the letter returns the DXCC program to the "bad old days" of Baldwin's reef, etc. 73, ... Joe, W4TV ===================================================================== Consistent with the rules of DXCC, effective with the annexation of Crimea by Russia today [Tuesday], Crimea in occupied territory or an area "in rebellion" against the lawful government. As is the case in other disputed areas like the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Kosovo, Russian enclaves (Abkhazia and South Ossetia) in Georgia, etc., contacts with stations in those areas should not count for DXCC. Pending official word from the DXCC desk, Ukrainian callsigns with 'J' as the first letter of the suffix will be removed from the next version of the DXCC database used by DXLab Suite. The call signs effected begin with UR#J through UZ#J, EM#J through EO#J, and U5J. When announced by Russia, the block(s) of Russian callsigns assigned to the "Crimea Oblast" will also be removed from the Russian entries in the DXCC database used by DXLab Suite. LotW will need to cancel certificates for any calls in the effected blocks and eQSL.cc will need to apply end dates to any accounts for the same calls. ======================================================================