0S1A Principato di Seborga

Perhaps some readers will recall the ill fated attempts to make the "Principato di Seborga" a DXCC country about 1994 when I1RBJ operated from there as the first operation using the call 0S1A.

The New York Times had an interesting article today about Seborga:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/world/europe/13carbone.html?scp=1&sq=seborga&st=cse

de WA2VUY

 

BTW, some years ago I tried to made a summary of the HAM radio activities
from Seborga (outside any political issue, just for documentation purposes)

See: http://freenet-homepage.de/dl8aam/Seborga.html

Interesting is the passge in the given New York Times article

> More than 20 countries have recognized independent Seborga, in one fashion or another.

I don't know if the they add Germany to that list, as the German governmental
telecommunication authority issued me a German guest licence for my Seborgian
license T00L in 1996, confirming that the German state accepted Seborgian documents
as valid...hi

See: http://freenet-homepage.de/dl8aam/Licence_Seborga.html

Funny isn't it ;-)

73, Tom, DL8AAM (ex: DL/T00L)

A nice QSL gattery on http://freenet-homepage.de/dl8aam/Seborga_QSLs.html

 

Fun, but....

There are lots of self-proclaimed micronations. Rarely do they go anywhere on the world stage. Sometimes they issue souvenir stamps, coins, and even titles of nobility:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation

Sealand, a World War 2 gun platform in the English Channel, may be the most successful of these, but since it has no natural land it isn't recognized as a country.

I've got an S42 QSL from one of the South African "Bantustans." These were supposedly independent countries set up to reenforce apartheid, and never internationally recognized. Historically interesting, but not good for DXCC.