[Dx-qsl] Fw: The ARRL Letter, Vol 23, No 35 - DXCC DROPPING ANNUAL LIST DEADLINE

Sun Sep 5 09:21:23 EDT 2004

You'll still see you name PLUS it will be more special, it will up there in 
lights.
c u on the bands
73,
Todd, W9YK
At 08:19 AM 9/5/2004, Leonard Kay wrote:
>With all due respect, Bernie, this is exactly my point.
>Reread my letter. I don't care about searching and five-way indexing
>and real time scores. NOT if I'm giving up 'my name in print'.
>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bernie McClenny, W3UR" <bernie at dailydx.com>
>To: "'Leonard Kay'" <k1nu at k1nu.com>; "'DX-QSL'" <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 9:04 AM
>Subject: RE: [Dx-qsl] Fw: The ARRL Letter, Vol 23,No 35 - DXCC DROPPING
>ANNUAL LIST DEADLINE
>>>The results will be published on the ARRL DXCC Web site. This will do
>several things. Expose your callsign to even more people (non subscribers).
>It will be updated weekly and hopefully even daily. It will be easy to
>search and find your callsign and your friends and competitors. I also
>understand that they are planning to have indexing on call, band, countries,
>etc. just like the Contest results. It would also no doubt save money.
>Over all I would say the positives out way the negatives. Oh and one last
>thought. The results will be more up-to-date, rather than 4-5 months old.
>>73
>Bernie, W3UR
>>Bernie McClenny, W3UR
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>>-----Original Message-----
>From: dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
>On Behalf Of Leonard Kay
>Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 12:42
>To: DX-QSL
>Subject: [Dx-qsl] Fw: The ARRL Letter, Vol 23,No 35 - DXCC DROPPING ANNUAL
>LIST DEADLINE
>>Hi guys,
>>This may be a bit off the reflector topic,
>but I thought it was important enough to send around.
>>It seems the ARRL is thinking of dropping the
>'DXCC Annual List' from the DXCC Yearbook,
>starting IMMEDIATELY (i.e. it won't be in the 2004 YB).
>>Below I have attached the letter I sent yesterday
>to Bill Moore, and I copied Jim Haynie. I urge you
>to write the DXCC desk yourself. I also attached
>the excerpt from Friday's ARRL Letter.
>>I mean, why are we all doing this if we're not
>gonna see our calls in print in the standings??? :-)
>>73,
>Len K1NU
>>-------------------------------------------
>Dear Bill,
>>I was very sad to read this in today's ARRL Letter.
>>Perhaps some people at HQ have missed the point.
>I, for one, WANT to 'see my name in print' in the
>DXCC Yearbook every year. It's been fun to watch
>my progress year-to-year against my buddies.
>It fosters a competitive spirit. Viewing the
>real time stats on the Web is NOT the same.
>>The Annual List is an important part of the DXCC Yearbook.
>I don't want to see 'highlights'.
>>Considering the fact that we DXers pay for the Yearbook
>through our awards fees, why was the ARRL DX community
>not asked our opinion on this? Was it cost? I'd gladly
>pay a nominal fee for the Yearbook to keep the Annual List.
>>I sincerely hope it's not too late to reconsider this.
>I guess it's good to see real-time standings, but it's
>just not the same as being able to pull out the DXCC Yearbook
>from 5 years ago and reminisce.
>>Very 73,
>Len K1NU
>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "ARRL Letter Mailing List" <letter-dlvy at arrl.org>
>To: <k1nu at k1nu.com>
>Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 7:07 PM
>Subject: The ARRL Letter, Vol 23, No 35
>>> > ***************
> > The ARRL Letter
> > Vol. 23, No. 35
> > September 3, 2004
> > ***************
> >
> >
> > ==>DXCC DROPPING ANNUAL LIST DEADLINE, ADDING REAL-TIME STANDINGS
> >
> > The ARRL DX Century Club Program (DXCC) has announced that, effective
> > immediately, there no longer will be a submission deadline for the DXCC
> > Annual List.
> >
> > "We have been working toward this end for several years," says ARRL DXCC
> > Manager Bill Moore, NC1L. In the past, he explains, September 30 has been
> > the traditional cutoff date to compile entity totals for the DXCC Annual
> > List, published in the DXCC Yearbook.
> >
> > Moore says that in the past, DXCC participants have tended to collect
> > their cards and submit them once a year to ensure the highest possible
> > total for the listing. A major downside of the deadline system is that
> > DXCC typically has received more than 25 percent of annual credit
> > submissions during September. That, in turn, created a huge increase in
> > workload and lengthened processing time.
> >
> > Under the deadline-free system, complete lists on the ARRL Web site will
> > replace the lists of DXCC standings that customarily have appeared in the
> > DXCC Yearbook. The new Web-based lists should be on-line early in the
> > first quarter of 2005--about the time the DXCC Yearbook typically
> > publishes. After an initial posting, DXCC will regularly update the Web
> > lists. These listings also will include the standings of all DXCC members,
> > not just those who made a submission in the previous year, as had been the
> > practice.
> >
> > ARRL will publish a scaled-down version of the DXCC Yearbook that will
> > contain highlights of the standings, along with other features. For more
> > information on the DXCC program, visit the DXCC Web page
> > <http://www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc>.
> >
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