Topband: KP5 & the DXCC

[Herb Schoenbohm]

My point David was that precisely the same rule applied to Water Island 
as to KP5 but without whatever "political" clout was used to get 
Desecheo in only a few here did not have the intensity of your efforts 
as an ARRL insider as SCM for Puerto Rico ringing the bells at Newington.

He is another oblique example:  When the FCC (a ham decided this) to 
convert KV4 to KP2 it was strange that all those in KP4 got to keep 
their calls.  Imagine if Johnny Johson (W3BNS) had changed Puerto Rico 
to KV3 instead.  You see the political pressure under such a move would 
have been awesome.  We in the VI got intercoursed, while you in KP4 were 
specially favored. These things do not happen in a vacuum.


Herb, KV4FZ



On 11/20/2013 12:39 AM, Dave Novoa W4DN wrote:
> Herb, who ever told you that *lied*.  No one in P.R. intended that.  I 
> was the ARRL Section Manager and I would have known.  Desecheo made it 
> to the DXCC list under the separate administration clause of the DXCC 
> rules (later deleted), the same rule used to include Kingman Reef, 
> Kure Island, Sable and Saint Paul Islands.  All jurisdiction over 
> Desecheo was transferred to the U.S. Navy (and in1976 to Interior) 
> during the WWII, and used as a bombing range.  The government of 
> Puerto Rico has no authority over Desecheo.  Any crime committed in 
> Desecheo is a federal matter, tried in U.S. Federal Courts. Mona 
> Island is part of the city of Mayaguez,  Puerto Rico.  There was no 
> way it could qualify for DXCC status.  If Water Island was considered 
> by the DXAC and not included in the List, was because it failed to 
> pass the test of the rules.  Do you think that the DXAC, the HQ's DX 
> Awards Committee and the General Manger (K1ZZ) would accept been 
> blackmailed by me or anyone else in P.R.?  Anyone who has any doubt of 
> what I am saying may contact Bob, W9KNI, who was the chairman of the 
> DXAC at the time of Desecheo's inclusion in the DXCC list.
> Dave
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