[Mldxcc] [The Daily DX] DXCC News Release - Rule Change

[Dick Wilson]

As reported earlier in today's issue of The Daily DX.
Bernie, W3UR


ARRL NEWS RELEASE
January 20, 2004                                       
For Further Information Contact:  Wayne Mills, N7NG
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DXCC Rule Change
At its January meeting in Windsor, Connecticut, the ARRL Board of Directors
removed paragraph 1.c) from the criteria for determining a DXCC Entity. This
provision, implemented in 1998 as part of the DXCC 2000 Program, had
provided that “An Entity will be added to the DXCC List as a Political
Entity if it …has a separate IARU Member Society.” Since that time, the rule
has allowed for the addition of four new DXCC Entities and the retention of
one existing Entity.

At the time it was not expected that this would create difficulties with the
administration of the IARU. Unfortunately, the provision has had the
unintended consequence of stimulating applications for IARU membership that
do not further the objectives of the IARU, creating an unfortunate and
unnecessary administrative burden.

The rule change will have no effect on those Entities created by or as the
result of the rule. According to DXCC Rule II, 5. C), “A change in the DXCC
Criteria shall not affect the status of any Entity on the DXCC List at the
time of the change.”

The other two criteria for the determination of a Political Entity for DXCC
continue in effect:
a) The entity is a UN Member State.
b) The entity (except international organizations) has been assigned a
callsign prefix block by the ITU.

The text of the Board resolution reads:
WHEREAS, the DXCC 2000 program adopted by the Board in 1998 included changes
to the criteria for a DXCC entity, and

WHEREAS, one of the new criteria makes separate IARU membership the basis
for determination of a “political entity,” and

WHEREAS, this rule has served a constructive purpose with respect to
existing IARU societies, but

WHEREAS, the rule also has had unforeseen consequences in creating an
incentive for the creation of proposed IARU societies that do not further
the objectives of the IARU, and

RECOGNIZING that elimination of the rule has no effect on the DXCC entities
that already have been created as a result of the rule,

RESOLVED, that the DXCC rules are hereby amended by deleting IARU membership
as a basis for determination of a “political entity.”
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