Doug Smith W9WI wrote:

VP6DX is on air!


Worked (with QRP!) on both 20 and 15 during the DX Contest.

Heard on 10 (?!) and 160 but too weak to work with QRP. Hope they'll keep
trying during the week.


It was amazingly easy to work them on 80, 40 and 30 from here on the
left coast. As a matter of fact, I worked them on 80 both CW and SSB
barefoot using a 40m vertical.
Otoh, I never heard a beep on 12 and 10, but that's probably because my
BigIR is ground mounted.


In other news, it's been interesting to watch the DX Cluster spot
assault and full-scale war about YU8. With all the hoopla about this
being a new entity, I don't see how this is ever going to happen
considering the criteria:

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An Entity will be added to the DXCC List as a Political Entity if it
meets one or more of the following criteria:

a) The entity is a UN Member State.

b) The entity has been assigned a callsign prefix bloc by the ITU
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I am not an expert on international politics, but it seems to me that
Russia will veto any attempt to admit Kosovo into the UN, and without
the UN membership, is there a way to get a prefix block assigned by the
ITU (this being a UN agency)?
And even if any of this happened, if the 4O entity is any indication,
Kosovo will be a "new one" starting the day it is admitted into the UN,
not the day they proclaimed independence (unlike S5, 9A and E7 before).

73 .......... WA7AA