[Dx-qsl] New DXCC Rules

Sat Jan 24 15:04:39 EST 2015

>>>AA6YQ comments below

-----Original Message-----
From: MG [mailto:mgreen at erols.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 2:44 PM
To: Dave AA6YQ; dx Posts
Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] New DXCC Rules
Now that is the best suggestion I have heard and Dave, it might have had a change on the outcome. Please send the suggestion to the
ARRL for consideration. 
>>>I have made this suggestion to ARRL management when they were proposing rule changes for unattended digital mode stations. I have
not made it recently, but will do so. 
>>>The ARRL-LoTW Yahoo Group has been a step in the right direction, but as its Moderator I'm obviously biased...

 73,
 Dave, AA6YQ
			"It would have been better for the ARRL to have setup an online forum on which DXers could weigh in, and see
what their fellow DXers had to say. While this probably would not have changed the outcome, there'd be less of a concern that the
changes were made without broad input."
On 1/24/2015 02:23 PM, Dave AA6YQ wrote:
		AA6YQ comments below
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: DX-QSL [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Doug Renwick
	Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 1:59 PM
	To: 'Richard F DiDonna NN3W'; dx-qsl at mailman.qth.net
	Subject: Re: [Dx-qsl] New DXCC Rules
	
	Comments ## below:
	
	-----Original Message-----
	From: DX-QSL [mailto:dx-qsl-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Richard F DiDonna NN3W
	
	DXCC has always been an individual achievement. Always.
	
	## I agree.
	
	DXCC has never been an equal footing competition. Operators use their own equipment, their own time, and operate from
stations
	featuring different geographies and different topographies.
	
	## I disagree. The ARRL/DXCC sees it otherwise. They publish the DXCC and 5B standings which puts everyone, everyone,
into the
	same competition.
	
				Yes everyone is in the same competition, but as Rich NN3W pointed out the competitors are not on an
equal footing. DXers whose
	QTH is 100 miles from an auroral zone are competing with Dxers whose QTH is on the equator. DXers with a single QTH are
competing
	with DXers with multiple QTHs within the same large DXCC entity. DXers who are limited to equipment for which they scrimp
and save
	to build by hand are competing with DXers who happen to live near a well-funded club or contest station with monoband stacks
and
	four-squares.
	
				Other than in contrived situations like WRTC, no two DXers have identical operating conditions.
Whoever originally established
	the ARRL DXCC awards decided to mostly ignore these variations. Over the years, DXers in large numbers have pursued these
awards,
	despite the fact that the playing field is not remotely level and cannot ever be level. Changes in technology must be
addressed one
	way or the other, and there may be no option that pleases a majority of DXers, much less all of them. 
	
				It would have been better for the ARRL to have setup an online forum on which DXers could weigh in,
and see what their fellow
	DXers had to say. While this probably would not have changed the outcome, there'd be less of a concern that the changes were
made
	without broad input.
	
	 73,
	
	 Dave, AA6YQ
	
	
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