[RTTY] E4X Palestine Country Status

[Dick Kriss]

Rich,

Thanks for the clarifying URL.

73 Dick AA5VU

Rare DX are the countries you have not worked. Once worked they are just DX.


> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 09:47:43 -0500
> From: "Rick Ruhl" <ricker at cssincorp.com>
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] E4X Palestine Country Status
> To: "'RTTY Reflector'" <rtty at contesting.com>
> 
> 1. As Prof Cass used to says, it's the DXCC list, it doesn't have to make
> sense.
> 
> 2. This call sign allocation meets the requirement of the current DXCC List
> Criteria, Section 1(b).
> 
> 3. Here's the info of how it's a new country from an old DX Bulletin
> 
> http://www.kwarc.org/bulletin/99-03/kwarc_dx_corner.htm
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Dick Kriss
> Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 7:50 AM
> To: RTTY Reflector
> Subject: [RTTY] E4X Palestine Country Status
> 
> I appreciate the FB effort of the E4X team and the excellent Log Online
> <http://www.dxfriends.com/e4x/log.php> that I think was designed and
> maintained by Roberto, EA2RY.
> 
> I mentioned working Palestine as new RTTY country and my wife, who could
> care less about DXCC counties, could not understand why Palestine is
> considered different country than Israel?  She visited Bethlehem a few
> months ago and she thought it was part of Israel. She never heard Palestine
> mentioned as a different country.
> 
> Yes, I know E4 is an ARRL approved DXCC country for contacts made after
> 1-Feb-1999; however, I would appreciate clarification on why Palestine is
> consider a separate county?
> 
> TNX again to the E4X team for very nice operation.
> 
> 73 Dick AA5VU