The Northern
California DX
Club
September 19, 2013
Meeting Agenda
• Welcome to the NCDXC Meeting
• Introductions
• Club Business – Presidential Soapbox,
Membership Applications
• Ken Anderson, K6TA – Pacific Division DX
Advisory Committee member
• Speaker – Rusty Epps, W6OAT
• Open Forum
• Raffle
Introductions
• Go around the room and introduce
yourselves
• Open Forum will be after our
speakers tonight
Raffle News
• See Carolyn, WB6ABC or Mike,
W6WZ for tickets
• Tonight’s Raffle Prizes include:
• Heil Pro Set Elite 6 Headset
• Heil PR-781 Microphone
Presidential Soap Box
• No Treasurer’s Report tonight
• Volunteers needed for Pacificon
table – October 11, 12 & 13
• OH2BH QSL Cards for Fire Drill are
here
• NCDXC Shirts & Jackets are now
available on the club web page
Club Business - Secretary
New Membership Applications
Bill Smith, N6BM
NCDXC Scribe
DX Advisory Committee
Ken Anderson, K6TA
Pacific Division DX Advisory
Committee Member
Any news on Kosovo or DXCC
changes?
DXAC Tasking – July 2013
Ken Anderson, K6TA
DX ADVISORY COMMITTEE Pacific
Division
Email: k6ta@arrl.net
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PSC Direction
• Pursuant to Minute 35 of ARRL Board of
Directors Second Meeting, July 2013, the
Program’s and Services Committee (PSC)
hereby directs the DX Advisory Committee to
comprehensively review the current DXCC
Rules and make any recommendations to the
PSC for updating any part of said rules as the
Committee sees fit.
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From Minute 35
• It has been at least 10 years since the DXCC rules
were comprehensively reviewed by the DX Advisory
Committee (DXAC) and/or another committee and
ratified by the ARRL Board of Directors
• during this time, changing international conditions
and situations now warrant review of these rules to
insure the DXCC rules acknowledge such changes and
events
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Specific Issues Under Review
• The use, location and control of remote
stations
• Effects of multiple receivers and transmitter
locations, especially 160m and 6m
• The rules on political entities
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DXCC Rule 8
• 8. All stations contacted must be "land
stations." Contacts with ships and boats,
anchored or underway, and airborne aircraft,
cannot be counted. For the purposes of this
award, remote control operating points must
also be land based. Exception: Permanently
docked exhibition ships, such as the Queen
Mary and other historic ships will be
considered land based.
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W6RGG 20 Meter CW Scarborough
Reef 2007
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DXCC RULE 9
• 9. All stations must be contacted from the
same DXCC entity. The location of any station
shall be defined as the location of the
transmitter. For the purposes of this award,
remote operating points must be located
within the same DXCC entity as the transmitter
and receiver.
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DXCC RULE 10
• 10. All contacts must be made using call signs issued
to the same station licensee. Contacts made by an
operator other than the licensee must be made from
a station owned and usually operated by the
licensee, and must be made in accordance with the
regulations governing the license grant. Contacts
may be made from other stations provided they are
personally made by the licensee. The intent of this
rule is to prohibit credit for contacts made for you by
another operator from another location……..
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REMOTE STATION USAGE
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Licensee owned remote usage
Non-Licensee owned remote usage
Distance limitation?
Same entity limitation?
Signing I/K6TA acceptable?
???
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Why Doesn’t Kosovo Count?
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Political Entity Criteria
• An Entity will be added to the DXCC List as a
Political Entity if it meets one or more of the
following criteria:
• a) The entity is a UN Member State.
• b) The entity has been assigned a callsign prefix bloc
by the ITU.
• c) The entity contains a permanent population, is
administered by a local government, and is located at
least 800 km from its parent
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Kosovo status
• Republic of Kosovo is not planning to apply for
UN membership in the foreseeable future.
• ITU callsign application made, unassigned Z6
being used.
• Has population but is not associated with a
parent more than 800 km away.
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WHY DOES P51BH AND P5/4L4FN COUNT?
DXCC RULE 7
• 7. Any Amateur Radio operation should take
place only with the complete approval and
understanding of appropriate administration
officials. ………. In any case, credit will be given
for contacts where adequate evidence of
authorization by appropriate authorities
exists, notwithstanding any such previous or
subsequent edict or policy.
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Tonight's Speaker
Rusty Epps, W6OAT
Everything you ever wanted to know
about the Northern California DX
Foundation
Open Forum – 15 Minutes
• Worked any interesting DX lately?
• Need help with antennas or radio?
• What’s on your mind?
K9W Wake Island DXpedition
• October 7-18
• WWW.WAKE2013.ORG
• John Miller, K6MM is one of the
operators
Raffle Time! 
• Tonight’s Raffle Prizes Are:
• Heil Pro Set Elite 6 Headset
• Heil PR-781 Microphone
Time to go work some DX!
• Any last minute announcements?
• Don’t forget the club table at
Pacificon on October 11- 13
• Remember the next meeting is on
Thursday, October 19th at Holder’s