[SADXA] DXCC Challenge Musings on a Quiet Day

[Wes]

I must be missing something.  DXCC Challenge requires 1000 confirmed 
band/countries.  Where does 3,000 come from?

On 4/6/2016 9:46 AM, Richard W. Solomon wrote:
> The latest deletion of Kingman Reef got me thinking
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> about what I perceive as an inequity between the DXCC
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> Honor Roll and the DXCC Challenge.
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> Now, while the deletion affects both programs (your
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> Credits for the Deleted Entity are also deleted), the
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> inequity lies in that while the entry level for the Honor
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> Roll is adjusted, the similar level (3,000 Q's) for the
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> DXCC Challenge is not.
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> I can see the rationale for the Honor Roll being limited
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> to Current Entity's, but the reason for applying the similar
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> rationale to the Challenge evades me.
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> The Honor Roll rules avoid having the top 10 populated
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> by those who have been around the longest and accumulated
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> the most countries. Just imagine if the top of the Honor Roll
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> included ALL the Deleted Entities (401 at last count), very
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> few, if any, could reach the Honor Roll today.
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> Another thought . the Honor Roll "Bar" is set using the "Top
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> Down" method, while the "Bar" for the Challenge is set using
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> the "Bottom Up" method. Including credits for Deleted Entities
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> in the DXCC Challenge would not preclude people from reaching
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> it, far from it.
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> Therefore, I would propose including Deleted Entities in the calculation
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> for the DXCC Challenge.
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> Comments, both pro and con are welcome.
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> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
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