[SEDXC] Ohio/Penn DX Special Bulletin #897.3

[Neil Foster]

I thought this was of interest................
Neil N4FN


>The Ohio/Penn DX PacketCluster
>DX Special Bulletin No. 897.3
>February 28, 2009
>Editor Tedd Mirgliotta, KB8NW
>
>
>Thanks to the Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society, Northern Ohio DX
>Association, Ohio/Penn PacketCluster Network, AB5K & the AR TelNet
>Clusters Network and Bill Moore/NC1L for the following DX information.
>
>PRESS RELEASE: From the "Century Club Awards Weblog"
>
>Concept of Deleted Entities Reinstated
>Feb 27, 2009 11:28 ET
>
>Bill Moore, NC1L, ARRL Awards Manager, reports the following:
>
>   In 2000, DXCC program rules were modified substantially in an effort
>to create simplified and stronger rules that would help make DXCC work
>well in the 21st century while tightening the DXCC List Criteria. At the
>same time the DXCC Challenge Award/competition was created as part of
>the modernization effort. The Challenge is intended to allow for an
>energetic new pursuit in DXing that focuses on statistics based upon only
>current entities on the List. The Challenge has been highly successful.
>
>   Another change resulting from this rules modernization was a subtle
>change from "deleting entities" to "removing entities." The intent of
>this change was to no longer allow the addition of deleted entities to
>the Deleted Entity List. In the subsequent years since DXCC 2000 there
>have been few issues with this concept and resultant little attention
>given to the realities of the ideological change. Recently, however,
>since the rollout of Logbook of the World (LoTW) and various political
>changes internationally, it has become evident that the program should
>return the concept of deleting entities for mostly administrative reasons.
>"Removing" an entity from the DXCC system is non-trivial if not impossible.
>Also, the success of the DXCC Challenge and the DXCC Honor Roll have made
>a great game better by providing a playing field that isn't heavily
>biased by age.
>
>   It seems that the concept of a "deleted" entity -- one that is marked
>as deleted and not applicable to Honor Roll or Challenge but that still
>exists in the records -- is an elegant solution to the problem of changes
>in entity status. Distinguishing entities that are no longer extant makes
>sense as a means of leveling the playing field for younger participants
>in DXCC, but to wipe out someone's past accomplishments altogether just
>seems too drastic.
>
>   At its last meeting the ARRL Programs and Services Committee decided
>that administratively the concept of deleted entities should be returned
>to the DXCC program. Necessary changes to Section II, DXCC List Criteria
>have been made to the rules and part 5 is renamed Deletion Criteria. The
>concepts for deleting an entity do not change. If an entity is deleted
>it will be added to the Deleted Entities List and the statistical records
>for DXCC participants will be adjusted accordingly, just as they had been
>in the years prior to 2000. The numbers shown in the individual DXCC
>records lists have always included the Deleted Entities. No DXCC participant
>needs to take any action at all.
>

All messages and attachments are scanned with NOD 32 Anti-Virus
No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a great 
number of electrons were inconvenienced.