ARRL's DXCC Challenge Award has received increased mention among the ADXA folks in recent weeks, due in part to the "friendly" competition within the Pope County ADXA enclave of Russellville!

Since the topic of deleted entities and achieving DXCC Honor Roll became a discussion point here and nationally, and following Bill, K5FUV's excellent educational presentation at our annual meeting regarding achieving Honor Roll it occurred to me that, while achieving DXCC Honor Roll is a goal every ADXA member should set as a priority it will take some time to methodically acquire the DXCC countries outstanding on your list.

As an alternative, the DXCC Challenge Award is equally impressive and should be a priory goal of every ADXA member as well. Building up the different credits is quite exciting. Once you hit the initial 1,000 mark you are well on your way and those endorsements at 500 increments provides you with not only an additional medallion for your plaque but BRAGGING RIGHTS at the next meeting (or even here on our reflector)!

If you work England "G" on 10 bands (160 thru 6 meters excluding 60 meters) you have earned 10 band credits, so it can add up quickly, and you are not required to have 100 countries on a band for it to add the your DXCC Challenge total!

The higher bands are coming alive with DX and it is all right in front of you to simply work, get it confirmed (much easier today with all the LoTW participation), and hang that plaque on the wall in your shack.

I remember well my excitement when I would reach another 500 level. Those who have been on this reflector for a while recall one of my DXCC goals was to reach the pinnacle "3,000" DXCC Challenge mark.To be quite honest, that was more exciting than my achieving DXCC Honor Roll. The 3,000 mark is a much smaller, more prestigious, group!!!!!!

If you're not familiar with the DXCC Challenge, here is a link to ARRL's website.
http://www.arrl.org/dxcc-challenge

The DXCC Challenge also has its own separate standings list on ARRL's website as well:
http://www.arrl.org/system/dxcc/view/DXCC-CHAL-20221209-USLetter.pdf

So, let's all get going on our DXCC Challenge totals and to do so, you know what to do:

GET IN THERE AND WORK 'EM !!!!!!!!!!!!!

73 Joel W5ZN