True, CQ does count Kosovo as a country multiplier for their awards (if I were a betting man, I would bet that is why Marty (Z68BH) was so "popular" in the CQ SSB World Wide this past weekend).
Unfortunately, Kosovo is neither a UN member or has it been assigned an official ITU prefix. Until either happen, it is in limbo; hopefully (if and when either of the prior occur), the ARRL will "backdate" the contacts many of us have made. Dick (W1KSZ) may well be right in the ARRL will only count contacts after the "official date" of recognition. Only time will tell; so WFWL!! Obviously, everything is in a state of limbo, and that causes problems in logging contacts! The solution I gave is the easiest; one could into the DXBase database, open country prefixes, and add Kosovo to it. Add Z6 as the prefix, country as Kosovo, and use the same Lat/Lon, CQ zone, ITU zone, Continent, and TZDIFF as Serbia. One would have to leave the ARRL-ID blank and maybe mark it as Deleted. Obviously it would be a "bogus" country showing up in the country list. Am sure everyone knows the same "issues" exist with T10VB (Transnistria) that Vladimir (UA4WHX) "activated" in early Sept. It doesn't count for anything, so log the call to ER and uncheck the Mixed and Mode boxes in the VALID column. Dick K8ZTT -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Solomon Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dxbase] DXBase and Z6 Actually, it does count, at least for CQ Awards. But, it will not count for DXCC until it gets listed on the DXCC Country list, and then only for Q's made on that date or later. 73, Dick, W1KSZ On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Dick WIlliams <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes, > > Kosovo does not count for anything (at least not yet). Since it is > technically part of Serbia, for now, map it to "YU". Then move over > to the "VALID" column in DXBase and uncheck both Mixed and Mode. > There will now be a "red" box there (just to make it "intuitively > obvious to the most casual of observers" to alert you to the fact the > contact does not count for anything. > > If and when the "world" and ARRL decide to count Kosovo as a new > country (and QSOs prior to recognition count), you can easily change > the country prefix to what will be assigned, and then re-check both > Mixed and Mode in the VALID column. > > Dick K8ZTT > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] > On Behalf Of Rod Greene W7ZRC > Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 7:30 AM > To: Joe WA6AXE; [email protected] > Subject: [Dxbase] DXBase and Z6 > > Anyone have the details on how to log Z6? I did a quick look via QRZ > and Google and know it is Kosovo. Don't know if it's a legal entity > for DXCC, etc. or not. Would like to get the correct logging info for > DXB if anyone can help. I worked Marti - Z68BH. > > Thanks and 73, Rod/w7zrc > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
