Questo è un estratto da un bell'articolo datato 2002 (autore "iceowl") sull'argomento DX. Non so quanto può essere comprensibile ad un profano ma sicuramente è chiarissimo per noi del settore. Mi piace sottolineare questo paragrafo che illumina bene la situazione attuale del Kosovo e tutte le polemiche che si stanno creando circa la validità per il DXCC (la mia opinione personale è di assoluto stupore: c'è chi accusa Martti di non avere una valida licenza ma son convinto che alla fine le carte salteranno fuori, magari retrodatate !).
The DXCC List
The ARRLs DXCC list is not static. There is a long list of rules that apply to define a "country". A quick coup d' etat or minor revolution does not a country make to the ARRL. A government must have some means to issue a radio license in accordance with the International Telecommunications Union for a country to be recognized. That means the United Nations must recognize its existence, which makes things difficult for hams contacting Taiwan.
As countries fracture or are conquered, the list must change to reflect this. For instance, Czechoslovakia had been a single DXCC entity before its dissolution to the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. People who had Czechoslovakia as one of their confirmed contacts suddenly found themselves with an invalid country in their QSL deck. Now they had to go contact two countries to make up for the hole in their honor roll list caused by the fall of the communist empire. This caused some people to fall off the honor roll. Falling off the honor roll is cause for several suicide attempts per year.
E nemmeno a farlo apposta ecco uno spezzone dal paragrafo DXpeditions:
The world's most famous DXpeditioner must be the Finn, Martti Laine, whose call sign OH2BH is virtually a prayer to DXers. Martti activated some of the most difficult and dangerous ARRL countries in the 1980's and '90s. His work with Nokia as a sales rep brought him to many exotic locales, and he never traveled without a radio.
But in his spare time, Martti activated such terrible places as the South Sandwich Islands, Bouvet Island, Albania before the Yugoslavian split, and actually operated radio out of a hotel in North Korea for a few days before his equipment was confiscated by the military. Accomplishing some of these feats required cold-weather mountaineering skills, chartering ice breakers and helicopters, riding out hurricanes in Scott Tents pitched on solid rock, and negotiating for his life with paranoidal dictators.
His exploits are detailed in his self-published book, "Where Will You Go Next?"
Seguono altri paragrafi quali The equipment, The Mania and Death of DXing, The Radio Dream and DX Clubs. "iceowl" è anche autore di due articoli su QST. Ripeto il link dove leggere l'articolo.
The DXCC List
The ARRLs DXCC list is not static. There is a long list of rules that apply to define a "country". A quick coup d' etat or minor revolution does not a country make to the ARRL. A government must have some means to issue a radio license in accordance with the International Telecommunications Union for a country to be recognized. That means the United Nations must recognize its existence, which makes things difficult for hams contacting Taiwan.
As countries fracture or are conquered, the list must change to reflect this. For instance, Czechoslovakia had been a single DXCC entity before its dissolution to the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. People who had Czechoslovakia as one of their confirmed contacts suddenly found themselves with an invalid country in their QSL deck. Now they had to go contact two countries to make up for the hole in their honor roll list caused by the fall of the communist empire. This caused some people to fall off the honor roll. Falling off the honor roll is cause for several suicide attempts per year.
E nemmeno a farlo apposta ecco uno spezzone dal paragrafo DXpeditions:
The world's most famous DXpeditioner must be the Finn, Martti Laine, whose call sign OH2BH is virtually a prayer to DXers. Martti activated some of the most difficult and dangerous ARRL countries in the 1980's and '90s. His work with Nokia as a sales rep brought him to many exotic locales, and he never traveled without a radio.
But in his spare time, Martti activated such terrible places as the South Sandwich Islands, Bouvet Island, Albania before the Yugoslavian split, and actually operated radio out of a hotel in North Korea for a few days before his equipment was confiscated by the military. Accomplishing some of these feats required cold-weather mountaineering skills, chartering ice breakers and helicopters, riding out hurricanes in Scott Tents pitched on solid rock, and negotiating for his life with paranoidal dictators.
His exploits are detailed in his self-published book, "Where Will You Go Next?"
Seguono altri paragrafi quali The equipment, The Mania and Death of DXing, The Radio Dream and DX Clubs. "iceowl" è anche autore di due articoli su QST. Ripeto il link dove leggere l'articolo.
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