[SEDXC] DXCC PROPOSAL FROM N4MB ARRL SE DIRECTOR

[K4PI]

If you have any comments please contact Mickey, N4MB  SE ARRL Director


One of the things I've been working on as a member of the ARRL Programs 
and Services Committee is the change to DXCC Rule I-9 that restricts 
counting DXCC contacts.

This rule has been passed by the ARRL Programs and Services Committee 
and has been tasked back to the DX advisory committee.

This should ELIMINATE almost ALL of the propagation shopping issues. 
Basically, it limits remote operation to three situations...

A DXCC applicant may apply for remote dxcc credit where they:
- use remote stations within 200km of their own station and their own 
primary station from anywhere.
- use a station wherever they are location
- use a SINGLE SPECIFIED REMOTE STATION any time. THis single 
station can only change once per sequential year.

I wrote this after taking THIS GROUP's requests and floating it to see 
what I could pass. I started with a hard limit of a 200km circle - which 
people objected to who have remote personal stations. Many amateurs are 
"snowbirds" - "up north" in the summer and "down south" in the winter, 
and build out stations at vacation homes that they want to use remotely.

This is to prevent "propagation shopping" which I and a number of other 
directors want to stop.

This has been passed out of the Programs and Services Committee and 
tasked to the DX Advisory Committee. This will be the third time that 
they have examined this issue, but the first time a rule change has been 
promoted.

I've attached the motion to change the rules, which I would like to get 
in front of the full board in January. If you live outside the 
Southeastern Division and support this, please contact your DX Advisory 
Committee member and your Division Director.

We will get this changed!

Thanks for your support.

73,

Mickey Baker, N4MB
ARRL DIrector, Southeastern Division
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
/“Tell me, and I will listen. Show me, and I will understand. Involve 
me, and I will learn.” /Teton Lakota, American Indian Saying.