______________________________________________________________SJDXA members,
I am passing along a copy of a petition from the Virginia DX Century Club recently sent to the ARRL DXAC for consideration that asks to “dilute” the current DXCC rules regarding “inactive” country/entity status.
As a longtime DXCC award chaser, I am strongly opposed to this suggested rule change. The DXCC Honor Roll, and even more so, the DXCC #1 club (work them all) are supposed to be difficult and challenging. Some entities are inactive for political reasons, some for access problems, and some for cost problems. To create such a rule would dilute the challenge of working the rarest of the rare and make the DXCC award far less meaningful.
Looking back, I can remember waiting for many years to have a chance to work entities like CHINA, Laccadives, Albania, North Korea, Spratly, Myanmar and the list goes on. But eventually, through persistence, patience, and consistency I prevailed in working them all (currently 340 on the overall active list). Attaining Honor Roll status (currently working 330 of the 340) is still a challenge but certainly attainable for anyone willing to devote the time and energy. Also worth noting is that the basic award for DXCC is for 100 entities with endorsements issued as you climb the ladder. For the Mixed, Phone, CW, Digital (RTTY), 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10-Meter DXCC Awards, stickers are issued in exact multiples of 50 (i.e. 150, 200) between 100 and 250 DXCC credits, in multiples of 25 between 250 and 300, and in multiples of 5 above 300 DXCC credits. So, there are plenty of challenges as you work through the list of entities.
I would like to send this same explanation to K2CS (The Atlantic Div DXAC member and chairman) on behalf of SJDXA.
If you have any thoughts, please pass them along to me at n2oo@sjdxa.org
73!
de Bob Schenck, N2OO
President SJDXA!
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