[CQ-Contest] Re: CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 2, Issue 16

[Nzharps at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/7/03 9:07:50 AM Pacific Standard Time, W9SZ-writes:

> I vaguely remember hearing something about "quotas".  Can someone who
> remembers explain that in some detail?
> 

My first ARRL DX test was 1961.  The quota system allowed you to work 6-8 
(don't remember which) stations from a given DXCC country on each band.  I'm 
sure someone at the League had a rationale for this "interesting" rule, but 
I'll be damned if I can think of what it was.   

Think the quota rule died a well deserved death by the mid-sixties.

73,
Ron, K8NZ
(Check '59 in SS)