Greg, that's the way I see it as well. The Serbs' unhappiness notwithstanding, Kosovo is not going to be reattached to Serbia. There will continue to be an issue with the Serb-majority area in the north, but that's not unlike other issues such as Trans-Dniester. So, it's appropriate that Kosovo is organizing its administration of the Amateur Radio Service and in my view, not at all inappropriate that they are getting some help from the international Amateur Radio community in doing so although the publicity is a bit over the top. But the DXCC rules have trigger points for the addition of a political entity to the list, and neither of the trigger points has as yet been reached. By the way, I should remind everyone on ODV that postings to this reflector are confidential to the Board unless the content is clearly intended for public release or labeled as not confidential. Dave K1ZZ From: G Widin [mailto:gpwidin@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 7:59 AM To: Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ Cc: arrl-odv Subject: Re: [arrl-odv:21064] Kosovo Dave, I read your note to mean that, for DXCC purposes, we won't be rushed into some premature declaration of Kosovo being a new DXCC entity. I definitely support this position, We only maintain the integrity of DXCC by following our own rules. Kosovo will count soon enough. -- 73, Greg, K0GW On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ <dsumner@arrl.org> wrote: In conjunction with an international effort to assist its telecommunication administration with developing domestic regulations for the Amateur Radio service, the Republic of Kosovo has just been activated using call signs with a Z6 prefix. For those of you who are interested in DX or have members who are interested in DX, a little background may be helpful. Under Section II of the DXCC Rules, to be recognized as a DXCC political entity Kosovo must either be a UN Member State or must have been assigned a call sign prefix block by the ITU. Z6 is a call sign block that is currently unassigned by the ITU and therefore should be available for assignment. However, as of now there is no indication that the ITU has made such an allocation or that it has been requested to do so. The fact that the Republic of Kosovo is putting regulations and an administrative framework for Amateur Radio into place is a positive development and should be viewed as such. Dave Sumner, K1ZZ _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org http://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv