[OKDXA] DXCC Mixed Honor Roll Breaks 5K Threshold

[Roger Simpson]

DXCC Honor Roll Breaks 5K Mark
December 18, 2015

I look at the DXCC statistics during the Holiday season each year. I 
have been doing this on a regular basis since 2010 and on a sporadic 
basis since 2006.

When I looked at the statistics today I notice that the number of DXers 
on the Mixed Honor Roll was exactly 5000. It is usually the case that 
the number of people on the Mixed DXCC lists increases a little each 
day. So today could be the very first time since the inception of the 
DXCC program that the number of DXers on the honor roll has broken 
through the 5K threshold.

Here is some tabular information.

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Date of Tabulation
December 18, 2015  [approx YEAR END 2015]

MIXED    Call signs on list = 25457       Honor Roll = 5000
CW        Call signs on list = 11363        Honor Roll = 1694
PHONE   Call signs on list = 17581       Honor Roll = 2576
RTTY     Call signs on list =  4126        Honor Roll =  164

Unique call signs on one or more honor rolls = 5431


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Date of Tabulation
January 01, 2015    [approx YEAR END 2014]

MIXED   Call signs on list = 24393       Honor Roll = 4755
CW       Call signs on list = 10898       Honor Roll = 1587
PHONE   Call signs on list = 16900      Honor Roll = 2426
RTTY     Call signs on list =  3805      Honor Roll =  144

Unique call signs on one or more honor rolls = 5172


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Date of Tabulation
February 20, 2010   [approx YEAR END 2009]

MIXED    Call signs on list = 18921      Honor Roll = 4558
CW        Call signs on list =  8234       Honor Roll = 1313
PHONE   Call signs on list = 14086      Honor Roll = 2472
RTTY     Call signs on list =  2147      Honor Roll =   97

Unique call signs on one or more honor rolls = 5108

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Source for all information is ARRL website. Method used to process each 
list is this:
  (a) display standings on ARRL website in web browser {Each business day 
the MIXED, PHONE, CW,
          and RTTY standing for that day are posted}

  (b) Perform "select-all", "copy", and "paste" to copy text for each 
listing
          from browser to a set of uniquely named blank text files which 
are going to receive the text copied
          from the ARRL site
  (c) Process the text files using program written in Visual Basic.



73   Roger   K5RKS