[CQ-Contest] Montenegro - a new Ham country?

[Ron Notarius WN3VAW]

Tim,

I believe they've set a target date of or or about 13 July to declare Montenegro independant. 

I would expect that the ITU will, in due course, issue them a new prefix block, unless as part of the negotiations with current government of Serbia & Montenegro (which I anticipate will be the "surviving" entity of Serbia as opposed to a "new" one), one of the blocks currently allocated to S&M is transferred to them.  We shall find out in due course, of course.

And I wouldn't expect a change on the official DXCC list until after the entity actually comes into existance.  I'm sure the gang in Newington is prepared to make the change -- but first things first.

Interesting times, is it not?

73, ron wn3vaw


Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 12:08:59 +0100
From: "Tim Makins" <tim.ei8ic at gmail.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Montenegro - a new Ham country?
To: <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>


Since the successful vote for independence on May 21st, it would seem that Montenegro is now a separate country from Serbia. Is this official yet? Does anyone know what has to take place for Serbia and Montenegro to become two independent countries on the 'World Stage' ?

>From a Ham Radio perspective, I assume that when this happens the DXCC list will increase by one. The current list http://www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc/dxcclist.txt is still showing the entry:

YT-YU, YZ*      Serbia and Montenegro        EU        28   15

Will there be separate prefixes for each country?

73s Tim EI8IC, waiting to update his maps...

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