The KWARC DX Corner

Palestine to be new DXCC entity
Effective October 1, 1999, Palestine (E4) will be added to the DXCC List. Contacts made with E4 stations after February 1, 1999, will count for this new DXCC entity. Under the DXCC rules, contacts with the deleted entity of Palestine made prior to June 30, 1968, will not count for DXCC credit. There is no commonality of territory or administration. The International Telecommunication Union allocated the call sign prefix E4 for use by Palestine in its Operational Bulletin No. 685 of February 1, 1999. This is in accordance with Resolution PLEN/3 of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference held last fall in Minneapolis. This call sign allocation meets the requirement of the current DXCC List Criteria, Section 1(b).

ZL9CI tops DXpedition QSO record
The Kermadec DX Association's ZL9CI Campbell Island DXpedition topped the DXpedition QSO record set a couple of years ago by the Heard Island VK0IR DXpedition. During its operation from January 6-24, the ZL9CI crew put some 96,000 contacts in the log. The VK0IR team had held the record at 80,000-plus contacts. Both the VK0IR DXpedition and the ZL9CI DXpedition were recipients of Colvin Award grants via the ARRL. For more information, or to see if you're in the log, visit http://www.qsl.net/zl9ci/.

ZL9CI Operator to Speak at June Meeting
Brian Biggings VE3XA from Gormley will be our featured speaker at the June meeting.  Brian spent a month in transit and on the island helping the group rack up over 96,000 QSOs.

Brian has been licensed since 1958 and was previously licensed as VE3BIE.  You can't miss Brian's antenna farm at the corner of the 404 and the Gormley side road.

Those who saw the Heard Island video last year will not want to miss Brian's talk and showing of the ZL9CI video