''NEW DXCC''

[S58F]

Pozdrav.

Iz Daily DX so posredovali sledečo novico.
We have new DXCC...the name is Saint Barthelemy and prefix is ''FJ''
No,kot vedno (večina) tudi tokrat se bo prvi pod FJ prefix-om oglasil MARTTI OH2BH & OH0XX Olli...
kot kaže nam ne bo dolgčas čez Božične praznike.
Na DX Cluster-jih lahko ze spremljate FJ/OH2AM spote..


73's de S58F
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HEALTY 2008!



INFO:

The Caribbean Island of Saint Barthelemy (St. Bart's) was discovered
in 1493 by Christopher Columbus and was named after his brother
Bartolomeo. The Island was claimed and settled by the French in 1648.
Sweden purchased St. Bart's from France in 1784 and then sold it back
to the French in 1878. In 1946 Guadeloupe (FG) was granted a
Department of France. This included the island of St. Bart's.

Saint Martin (FS) was added to the DXCC list on July 1st (per May,
1955 QST) with an effective starting date of November 15, 1945 and
afterwards. St. Barthelemy (FJ) QSOs have always counted as FS-St.
Martin for DXCC, up until this point. On February 21, 2007 French
authorities signed into law 2007-224 giving the island of Saint
Barthelemy a new political status of "Overseas Collectivities", which
was then published the following day.

On July 2, 2007 the United States State Department recommended a
revision of their list "Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty"
list. On Friday December 14, 2007 Saint Barthelemy was added to the
"Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty" public list.

DXCC Political Entities criteria 1c states: "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. Bart's
clearly meets that criteria and should be added to the DXCC list as a
new counter.

Here is the info you will want to input into your logging software.
Prefix - FJ
Country Name - Saint Barthelemy
CQ Zone - 8
Start date - Probably February 22, 2007
QSL Bureau - Yes (REF France)
UTC Offset - 4 hours behind UTC
IOTA - NA-146
ITU Zone - 11
Continent - North America
Longitude - 62.83 West
Latitude - 17.92 North
Other islands that will count for Saint Barthelemy - Chevreau, Coco,
Fourchue, Fregate, La Tortue, Le Boulanger, Pain de Sucre, Pele and
Toc Vers.



DXpeditioners have been monitoring the status of St. Barthelemy (FJ)
for several months. Immediately after the addition of St. Bart's to
the United States State Department's Dependencies and Areas of Special
Sovereignty list an initial two man seasoned DXpedition team flew to
the Caribbean this past weekend.

The team instantly discovered a transportation shutdown on St. Bart's
as flights and ferry passage to the new counter were shut down due to
local strikes. The team then hired a local private boat for
transportation to Gustavia, the islands capital city.

OH2BH, Martti Laine, and OH0XX/HP1WW, Olli Rissanen, will be the first
two operators of the team and are now in the process of building up
two stations. Depending on conditions, operator's schedules and how
things go the operation could continue even into the Christmas
holidays. The team wishes to give those who Deserve another DXCC
counter a most welcome Christmas present as they wish to pass their
jubilant greetings far away from their family's Christmas preparations
and to close another DX year the way we all like it best.

The team plans to begin activity today, Tuesday December 18th around
1200 noon local (1600Z) as FJ/OH2AM. They will have two stations,
using an FT-1000MP and FT2000MP along with Fin Fet amplifier. Initial
operations will begin on 20 meters SSB and 17 meters CW. The goal of
this operation will be to give as many DXers as possible a new
country. Additional bands may be added as the DXpedition goes
forward. Concentration will be to have one station on CW and one on
SSB. QSL cards for this operation should go via OH2BN.

[S50U]

No,kot vedno (večina) tudi tokrat se bo prvi pod FJ prefix-om oglasil MARTTI OH2BH & OH0XX Olli...

Preden zapakirate QSL-ke za potrditev nove DXCC bi bilo malo za počakati, da se dogovorijo ali bo tole DXCC Desk poštemplal ali ne: http://arp75.free.fr/Lettreaucomitedxcc_english.pdf

Srečno 2008 Danilo, S50U

[S51AY]

Ja, pa na online log bi tudi bilo dobro počakati. Dokler traja ekspedicija, na netu menda ne bo online loga. Samo toliko, da ne bo "dolgih nosov", pa trošenja "green stamps" po nepotrebnem.

[S50U]

Ja, pa na online log bi tudi bilo dobro počakati.

Bolj je bilo mišljeno če bi Francozi uspeli z tistim dokumentom in klofarija ne bi bila priznana. Vseeno njun dnevnik je tu : http://www.n4gn.com/fj/

Srečno 2008 de Danilo, S50U