View Full Version : The Kosovo Conumdrum
W2BBQ
02-23-2008, 11:58 PM
This lifted and paraphrased for brevity from Dx Daily News and Times Worldwidth.
Turns out that Kosovo, being a silly little place and always strapped for cash, accepted a rather low-ball bribe from DX'ERS Anonymous to declare independence for the sole purpose of being able to make up and issue their own amateur radio call signs and become a new DXCC (D X Country Club) entity.
It's always a good news - bad news kind of thing when this happens as all previous D X Country Club awards are obsoletitized, must be yanked off walls and trasherated, (PLEASE RECYCLE ALL PAPER ITEMS!), and the darn DXCC'ing thing must begin anew for all those award-chasing hams who like to chase awards for some reason. {Don't ask Marconi, he doesn't know either} and besides he's very busy these days and has no time to answer pesky questions like this one would be.
So happy DX'ing Kosovo everyone :)
WA9SVD
02-24-2008, 03:45 AM
You think Amateur Radio operators can convince a country to declare independence?
Umm, I have a bridge in London you might like...
Get real. That area has been a political mine field for a long time, and it's taken a huge toll in human life and personal sacrifice for those people to achieve their independence. trying to claim that that DX status has anything to do with that is an insult to those people of the highest degree.
As far as DX status oif Kosovo as a new DXCC ebntity, as the ARRL has stated, it will be recognized as a new entity when:
1. Kosovo applies and is accepted for membership in the United Nations,
OR
2. The ITU recognizes Kosovo as a sovreign entity and issues a new call prefix. And such recognition will not be retro-active. Until such time as either condition is met, Kosovo is still considered a part of Serbia for DXCC credit.
Get real. That area has been a political mine field for a long time, and it's taken a huge toll in human life and
FWIW, Kosovo occupies a place in slavic history like that occupied by The Alamo in Texas. Now suppose that a Spanish-speaking majority of Bexar County (http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbexar/index.html) decided to secede ... The impact might be similar.
Of course, the Battle of Kosovo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo) took place more than 600 years ago, and we could be justified in calling that stale news!
Cortland
KA5S
K8MHZ
02-24-2008, 07:51 PM
FWIW, Kosovo occupies a place in slavic history like that occupied by The Alamo in Texas. Now suppose that a Spanish-speaking majority of Bejar County (http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Etxbexar/index.html) decided to secede ... The impact might be similar.
Of course, the Battle of Kosovo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kosovo) took place more than 600 years ago, and we could be justified in calling that stale news!
Cortland
KA5S
A little trivia question for you:
What was the name of the only Texas revolutionary that survived the Battle of the Alamo?
K9STH
02-24-2008, 08:26 PM
KA5S:
Methinks you misspelled Bexar County!
MHZ:
I believe you mean Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, one of the Tejano revolutionaries.
Glen, K9STH
A little trivia question for you:
What was the name of the only Texas revolutionary that survived the Battle of the Alamo?
Were all defenders were put to death?
No. Fourteen women, children, slaves, and one defender survived. The defender, Brigido Guerrero, talked himself free by claiming to have been a prisoner of the Texans. Guerrero is mentioned in the diaries of two of Santa Anna's officers. In fact, there was enough credence in his story that in 1878, he began receiving a pension from Bexar County for his part in the battle.
LINK (http://www.footnote.com/page/1164/~The-Fall-of-the-Alamo~/)
Found it while looking through Bexar county's history.
Cortland
KA5S
K8MHZ
02-24-2008, 08:33 PM
KA5S:
Methinks you misspelled Bexar County!
MHZ:
I believe you mean Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, one of the Tejano revolutionaries.
Glen, K9STH
Nope, good guess though.
Actually, the only reason I know the name is that this person shares a surname with a good friend of mine. I should add, however, that this person is the only *documented* survivor. There may have been others but there is no way to prove it.
I will give you a hint. The survivor was captured by the Mexican Army and later released.
KA5S:
Methinks you misspelled Bexar County!
Sure did.
So a tourist has been driving along in Bexar County and finally can't stand it. Pulls over at a fast food place and orders a shake and a burger.
"How do you pronounce the name of this place?" he asks the girl counting his change.
Wide-eyed, she looks at him and says, slowly, "D A I R Y Q U E E N."
Cortland
KA5S
K8ERV
02-24-2008, 08:42 PM
I heard it was MacDonalds, same difference tho.
I visited Seguin Tx (Motorola) in 1981, but did not know the background of the name. WIKI has some interesting info on the person. (Glen was FINALLY wrong. Mark your calendar.)
TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo
I heard it was MacDonalds, same difference tho.
I once bent a car roof with a too-tall rigid 2-meter collinear while parking at one of those places. The antenna survived a while longer and the Fiat's roof did spring back.
20 years later I trimmed a Bugcatcher to the IH35 overpasses south of Fort Worth.
FWIW.
Cortland
KA5S
K8MHZ
02-24-2008, 09:50 PM
LINK (http://www.footnote.com/page/1164/%7EThe-Fall-of-the-Alamo%7E/)
Found it while looking through Bexar county's history.
Cortland
KA5S
We have a winner!
Brigido Guerrero is correct. My friend Bryan Guerrero owns G3 Electric. His dad and my dad worked together at American Coil Spring.
We have a winner!
Brigido Guerrero is correct. My friend Bryan Guerrero owns G3 Electric. His dad and my dad worked together at American Coil Spring.
We forget sometimes that the Texians were rebelling against violations of the MEXICAN constitution.
Cortland
KA5S