Aggiornamento Nuove Entità DXCC N°340
St Barthelemy (FJ) Entity n°338
ARRL DXCC, annuncia con clamorosa felicità l'ingresso nella lista dei paesi DXCC St Barthelemy (FJ) creando cosi
l'entità DXCC N° 338.
The
ARRL
DXCC
Desk is pleased to announce the addition of
St Barthelemy
(FJ) to the
DXCC List,
making the island entity number 338 with an effective date of 14 December,
2007. Cards with contacts dated December 14, 2007 or after will be accepted
for DXCC credit. New card submissions for St Barthelemy will not be accepted
until January 1, 2008 in order to allow time for administrative adjustments.
Background
On February 21, 2007 the French Ministry issued a decree making St
Barthelemy an Overseas Collective, making its status equal to that of
Guadeloupe,
Martinique
and other French territories currently on the DXCC List. On November 8, 2007
the President of Association Des Radio Amateurs De St Barthelemy, Philippe
Delcroix, FJ5DX, contacted the DXCC Desk, requesting that St Barthelemy be
considered a new DXCC entity.
The "event date" that caused St. Barthelemy to be added to the DXCC list was
December 14, 2007, the date the US State Department Fact sheet was updated
by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. This update added St Barthelemy
to the
List of Dependencies and Areas of Special
Sovereignty
with its Administrative Center in Gustavia, qualifying it under DXCC rules
in Section II -- 1 Political Entities (c):
c) The Entity contains a permanent population, is administered by a local
government, and is located at least 800 km from its parent. To satisfy the
"permanent population" and "administered by a local government" criteria of
this sub-section, an Entity must be listed on either (a) the U.S. Department
of State's list of "Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty" as having
a local "Administrative Center," or (b) the United Nations list of
"Non-Self-Governing Territories."
St Martin
French St Martin (FS), while also added to the List of Dependencies and
Areas of Special Sovereignty, will remain on the DXCC List, but it is now
considered a Point 1 Political Entity under the same classification as that
of St Barthelemy.
Bill Moore NC1L
DXCC Manager
DXCC Working on 2008
Applications; St Barts Added to DXCC List
(Apr 3, 2008) -- ARRL DXCC Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, reports that DXCC has
completed processing applications for 2007. As such, St Barthelemy (FJ)
has been added to the DXCC computer system and Logbook of The World (LoTW).
With the addition, this moves the #1 Honor Roll position to 338 current
entities; operators now need 329 entities to qualify for Honor Roll. "While
DXCC has completed applications for 2007, there are a number of application
returns still being mailed, so it may be another 2-3 weeks before applicants
receive their 2007 return," Moore said. "LoTW is now accepting certificate
requests for St Barthelemy; once those logs are submitted, the matches
should occur and applicants can claim DXCC credit." For programmers who use
the DXCC entity numbering system, the entity code for St Barthelemy is 516.
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