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