Effective at the close of the ARRL Board meeting yesterday (20th January, 2018) — an additional DXCC criterion will be added to the ARRL DXCC List Critera. Specifically: Section II, Political Entities.
The new rule adds entities having an IARU Member Society AND being listed on the United States Department of State List of Independent State in the World. Note that BOTH of these criteria must exist.
Additional information, including QSO start dates, etc. should be forthcoming in the next few days.
Basically, the tweet sent out yesterday by DX-World concerning Kosovo is pretty accurate. QRX for more..
Strong rumours suggest Kosovo will become [after a long time & with their IARU membership] the newest DXCC entity. *Emphasis on rumours * …. T.B.C / QRX !
— DX World (@DX_World) January 20, 2018
ClubLog now has the Z60A’s logbook since 1-20-18 which appears to be the start date for Kosovo to be the newest DXCC
Is the qsos prior to jan 2018 will count? There was Z60WW in 2012-2013 by same team ! Tnx for infos
You mean 1U4UN (Bir tawil). There is no IARU Member Society there …yet
4U1A is Austria.
What about 4U1A for DXCC ?