[Dx-qsl] 2007 DX Yearbook

Sun Sep 28 16:01:41 EDT 2008

I too was upset at the lack of articles. Especially when I saw BS7H on the 
cover, and then turned the page to find.... nothing! :-)
But I totally agree with Peter that the lists are nice to have in print. I'm 
on the DXCC web site probably once a week looking at the Challenge 
standings, but it's still nice to have that 'snapshot' in time. Sure, I can 
print out the Chal standings, and tuck them in the back, but it's not the 
same.
However, Peter, I think you contradicted yourself, since the exact same 
argument applies to the DXpedition articles - why should they be relegated 
to the Web? To me it's a lot of fun to open the 200X Yearbook and remember 
what happened that year.
My question is, Why can't we have both??? Lists and articles? OK, so the 
Yearbook might be 70 pages - so what? It's a Yearbook! :-) I'd be glad to 
pay a buck more for my DXCC submissions to cover it. Are you listening, 
Bill? Whaddya say?
73 Len K1NU
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Dougherty" <w2irt at verizon.net>
To: "Wes Quinn" <wes_quinn at yahoo.com>; <dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] 2007 DX Yearbook
> At 11:31 AM 9/28/2008, Wes Quinn wrote:
>>>It only has 8 pages of articles, because Bill (NC1L) mentioned that (per 
>>comments he has received) to add the DXCC Annual List again. That list 
>>takes up 39 pages! I think that is such a waste, since any member can get 
>>it off the web for free and it doesn't cost the ARRL much to do that. I 
>>would rather see more articles in the yearbook than a listing of DXCC 
>>callsigns which is already outdated, since the info changes so often these 
>>days.
>> I have a very different take on this (as I wrote to the League last year).
>> I am positively ecstatic that the full DXCC list is back in the Yearbook, 
> and here's why. It's a snapshot in time. The online stats are great for 
> seeing where you are now, but in 20 years, it's something to look back and 
> see where you (and your friends) were in 2007. A nice reminder of how far 
> you've come. As these numbers are published every year, you can plot how 
> well you've grown stat-wise. Not just that, but there are a lot of hams 
> who simply don't have Web access or don't want to or know how to find this 
> information on the 'Net. Not everyone is Web-savvy.
>> As to articles, I agree it's nice to see stories of the biggest operations 
> of the previous year, but at the same time, with the number of printed 
> magazines and online DX reflectors available, do we really need yet 
> another re-telling of 3Y0X or VP6DX some 18 months after their signals 
> left the ether? I could see the need for this before the Internet 
> revolution, but now that the stories are easily accessed by DXers who 
> prefer either paper or electrons, I think the value of the Yearbook's 
> feature articles is a little bit dimished.
>>>> Regards,
>> Peter,
> W2IRT
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