[OKDXA] FW: [DX-NEWS] Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin #897.3

Sun Mar 1 13:31:22 EST 2009

So let me see if I have this correct:

They deleted deleting deleted entities.

73s John AA5JG

--- On Sun, 3/1/09, Bert Aaron <k2ba at cox.net> wrote:

> From: Bert Aaron <k2ba at cox.net>
> Subject: [OKDXA] FW: [DX-NEWS] Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin #897.3
> To: "'Discussion of OKDXA'" <okdxa at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009, 11:24 AM
> SB DX @ WW < KB8NW $OPDX.897.3
> Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin No. 897.3
> 
> The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
> DX Special Bulletin No. 897.3
> BID: $OPDX.897.3
> February 28, 2009
> Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
> Provided by BARF80.ORG (Cleveland, Ohio)
> 
> Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern
> Ohio DX
> Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K &
> the AR TelNet
> Clusters Network and Bill Moore/NC1L for the following DX
> information.
> 
> PRESS RELEASE: From the "Century Club Awards
> Weblog"
> 
> Concept of Deleted Entities Reinstated
> Feb 27, 2009 11:28 ET
> 
> Bill Moore, NC1L, ARRL Awards Manager, reports the
> following:
> 
>    In 2000, DXCC program rules were modified substantially
> in an effort
> to create simplified and stronger rules that would help
> make DXCC work
> well in the 21st century while tightening the DXCC List
> Criteria. At the
> same time the DXCC Challenge Award/competition was created
> as part of
> the modernization effort. The Challenge is intended to
> allow for an
> energetic new pursuit in DXing that focuses on statistics
> based upon only
> current entities on the List. The Challenge has been highly
> successful.
> 
>    Another change resulting from this rules modernization
> was a subtle
> change from "deleting entities" to "removing
> entities." The intent of
> this change was to no longer allow the addition of deleted
> entities to
> the Deleted Entity List. In the subsequent years since DXCC
> 2000 there
> have been few issues with this concept and resultant little
> attention
> given to the realities of the ideological change. Recently,
> however,
> since the rollout of Logbook of the World (LoTW) and
> various political
> changes internationally, it has become evident that the
> program should
> return the concept of deleting entities for mostly
> administrative reasons.
> "Removing" an entity from the DXCC system is
> non-trivial if not impossible.
> Also, the success of the DXCC Challenge and the DXCC Honor
> Roll have made
> a great game better by providing a playing field that
> isn't heavily
> biased by age.
> 
>    It seems that the concept of a "deleted"
> entity -- one that is marked
> as deleted and not applicable to Honor Roll or Challenge
> but that still
> exists in the records -- is an elegant solution to the
> problem of changes
> in entity status. Distinguishing entities that are no
> longer extant makes
> sense as a means of leveling the playing field for younger
> participants
> in DXCC, but to wipe out someone's past accomplishments
> altogether just
> seems too drastic.
> 
>    At its last meeting the ARRL Programs and Services
> Committee decided
> that administratively the concept of deleted entities
> should be returned
> to the DXCC program. Necessary changes to Section II, DXCC
> List Criteria
> have been made to the rules and part 5 is renamed Deletion
> Criteria. The
> concepts for deleting an entity do not change. If an entity
> is deleted
> it will be added to the Deleted Entities List and the
> statistical records
> for DXCC participants will be adjusted accordingly, just as
> they had been
> in the years prior to 2000. The numbers shown in the
> individual DXCC
> records lists have always included the Deleted Entities. No
> DXCC participant
> needs to take any action at all.
> 
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