[Dx-qsl] New DXCC rules

[Richard F DiDonna NN3W]

DXCC itself is a pretty easy award.  You can do it in 24 hours in a 
major contest event....

73 Rich NN3W
On 1/24/2015 4:50 PM, Peter W2IRT wrote:
> My comments ###
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DX-QSL [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Robert
> Emory
>
> Just my personal thoughts.
> For me DXCC is a personal achievement.  If I can look MYSELF in the DX
> mirror and feel fine that's all that matters.  I really don't care how YOU
> made it; how YOU succeeded; what corners YOU cut; how much YOU paid a
> dexpedition for YOUR card.
> I only care about MY DXCC plaque and how I got there.
> If YOU need to "cheat" and it's that important to YOU then go for it.  I
> think it cheapens the award for YOU but not for ME.
>
> [pjd] ### Cheating cheapens the award for anybody who *does* compete against
> the rest of the world's DXers. It's a friendly competition and one I know
> I'll never win since I don't have a superstation of my own, but it's a
> competition I love and I'm passionate about. I want to compete against my
> fellow hams with consistent and fair rules.
>
> ###DXCC is a premiere operating award, not a "thanks for playing" award like
> WAC or even WAS, or worked all river barge terminals or whatever. It's the
> Big One, and it should be reserved for operators using either their own
> stations (remoted or otherwise) or stations belonging to friends or clubs
> where no financial remuneration is involved to the station-owner, it should
> be situated in mostly the same propagation conditions as the operator, and
> all gear must be interconnected either via cables or RF operating
> exclusively on amateur radio frequencies with no connection to the PSTN or
> Internet. If you're wealthy and have a yard full of towers and an aluminum
> overcast of your own, that's great. You get to be with other top dawgs in
> the big leagues. If you have 100W and a vertical, but all other condx being
> the same, you get to participate at a slightly lower level, but at least you
> can take pride in your contacts.
>
> ### Paid remote stations violate every aspect of Ham Spirit in my book, and
> by requiring the Internet, it's no longer even amateur radio. Playing
> dial-a-remote to get the best propagation is just downright cheating, and I
> put all of those on the same footing as DX nets "that's a good QSO. Two by
> two, rifle shots, bang bang" or some other DX spoonfeeding balderdash.
>
> ### If the League really wanted to address this situation they'd create a
> parallel award for real stations only. DXCC Ultra, if you will. I'd pay
> extra to play in the "no kids, lids or space cadets" class.
>
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