** New DXCC activation of PJ4, Bonaire **

The end of a country - The Netherlands Antilles With a 99% certainty, many things are about to change for the people and all radio amateurs in the Netherlands Antilles. On October 10, 2010 the Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the islands will emerge with several new statuses: * St. Maarten and Curaçao will become an independent country within the Kingdom and will be granted the same status that Aruba attained in 1986. * Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius (also called BES islands) will be given the status of a public body (a kind of special municipality) in the Netherlands and will therefore fall directly under Dutch rule... So very soon, 2 DXCC entities will be disappearing, but 4 DXCC will come back!Press Release: 10-10-2010, Date: 11 August, 2010 via OPDX #972.1 [MMMonVHF Newsletter 2010-08-19]