Hopefully we will be hearing something from the ARRL soon…

From: Jeff Maass [mailto:jmaass@k8nd.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:38 PM
To: 'Jeffrey Clarke'
Subject: FW: Now Official: The Netherlands Antilles Will Be Dissolved on 10-10-10!

Jeff:

Don’t know if you’ve got the word yet.

73,  Jeff  K8ND

From: Jeff Maass [mailto:jmaass@k8nd.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 4:33 PM
To: Bob Allphin K4UEE (k4uee@comcast.net); Craig Thompson K9CT (craig@thompsonet.com); 'David Flack AH6HY'; Joe Pater W8GEX (W8GEX@aol.com); N0VD Kelly Jones (kjones@virtualcohesion.com); Paul Young K1XM (k1xm@underwater.org); PB2T Hans Blondeel Timmerman (pb2t@veron.nl); W9VA Bill Smith (w9va@aol.com); Will Roberts AA4NC (aa4nc@aol.com)
Cc: K1ZZ Dave Sumner (k1zz@arrl.org); 'w8qid@arrl.net'; 'w9wu@arrl.net'; 'hkramer@arrl.org'; 'dxcc@arrl.org'; 'bernie@dailydx.com'; Carl Smith; W0CG Geoff Howard (ghoward@kent.edu); 'pj2t@yahoogroups.com'; 'Joe Subich, W4TV'; 'Brett Ruiz'; Ke-Chi Chang (cursur@onenet.an)
Subject: Now Official: The Netherlands Antilles Will Be Dissolved on 10-10-10!

Bon Tarde to all interested 10-10-10 Folk!

The news from The Hague is that the last of the documents have been signed today at the Final Round Table Conference (RTC) by the representatives of The Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, Curacao, Sint Maarten, Aruba, and the BES island (Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba)!

They have certified that all is in readiness and accepted by all parties for the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles on October 10 at 0400Z (midnight island-time), resulting in the associated beginning of the new statuses for each of the affected islands!

10-10-10 is finally a "done deal"!

Now we need to get an announcement from the ARRL, as early as possible, on the identity and effective date(s) of any new DXCC Entities. This will prevent all the rampant speculation and help to make more efficient the planning by several groups that are expected to be active from the affected islands on 10-10-10. It will also allow them to have LOTW modified and tested so that those of us planning to do “early and often” log uploads to LOTW will be able to do so properly during operations immediately following 10-10-10.

Party on, folks!

(You can read the available online media on this in my media compilation (PDF). I’ll be updating it several times this evening with any additional media coverage found.)

73,

Jeff Maass K8ND

Station Manager, PJ2T

Caribbean Contesting Consortium

CCC Web Site:         http://www.pj2t.org

PJ2T Slide Show:      http://www.k8nd.com/Radio/DELARA_PPT2.pdf

Curacao Critters:     http://www.CuracaoCritters.com

Curacao Cemeteries:   http://www.CuracaoCemeteries.com

73,  Jeff Maass  K8ND