[Elecraft] RE: ARRL DX: 100!

[Kevin Cozens]

At 07:32 AM 03/06/2002 -0800, Gay Family wrote:
> > Multipliers
>
>         This one has me buffaloed a bit. So basically, for this contest 
> the score
>is my number of contacts (25) times the number of countries worked per band,
>dupes (same station, same band) eliminated? I didn't have any of those. I
>had 25 contacts, 13 "countries" (Alaska and Hawaii don't seem like
>countries) but nineteen multipliers (6 additional countries in different
>band combinations).

Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands are all separate 
DXCC entities. When it comes to DXCC, the word "country" refers to radio 
country not political country. To avoid the confusion you would be better 
off using the term "DXCC entity" instead of country.


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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