No one alive can get to the 'worked and confirmed them all' list. The last ham with a possibility died some years back.
The rest of us come an at some lower number. I, for one, enjoy seeing my self up with those I most admire.
When I started DXing- (here comes the "when I was a kid, I had to walk 10 miles through 10 feet of snow to go to school." Nostalgia BS)- no one was even close to top 'o the roll. Now, it can be accomplished in a few years.
Heck, there were countries on the list that we were NOT ALLOWED to contact, e.g. U* and BY. What a challenge.
Now, shack-on-a-belt types can link through some group of capital letter technoconcept and get DXCC from his bedroom while recovering from the flu, send in the log via e-mail and have the Plaque in less than a week!
I think I will learn to crochet. Wanna doily?
Dean
Ron, You are right and wrong and this is the mis understanding everyone has.
On the one hand, you can work all of the CURRENT countries, qualify for the DXCC honor roll and top of the honor roll (Number 1 plaque) on that basis.
On the other hand TOTAL countries is kind of like a "life time achievement score." It recognizes that you were in the hunt for many years and yes, there is always someone out there with more than me and I've been at it for 44 years. That's fine with me, just let me keep my all-time country credits; I earned each one of them. I know that I'll never get to the top of the all time list and, you know what, I don't think that anyone will ever get there. So what? What I've earned is still an accomplishment as far as I'm concerned. Let's keep 2 scores, current and all-time.
73, Bruce K1MY
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron St.Laurent ND5S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "bruce makas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DX chat submital" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DX submital" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 6:47 AM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Deleted vs Expunged
> Bruce, > > I may be missing something, but using your logic, a "new guy" could NEVER > get to the top of the all time list as there are entities he couldn't > possibly work as these entities are on the deleted list. The current method > levels the playing field as available entities are available to all. Under > the new rules attrition will eventually take care of the deleted "good ones" > out there. > > Best 73, > > Ron ND5S > > Visit my Website at: > www.qsl.net/nd5s > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "bruce makas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "DX chat submital" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DX submital" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 8:42 AM > Subject: [DX-CHAT] Deleted vs Expunged > > > > Apologies to Bernie W3UR and the Daily DX Bulletin but the following is > > copied from today's edition (you really should subscribe if you are not): > > > > ---------------------- > > Reader K9KK, Rick, asks for an explanation of the difference between > > deleting a DXCC entity and "removing" it. I believe this comes up in > > connection with the recent discussion of East Timor/Timor-Leste, the > > operations during the "UNTAET" period and post-UNTAET period. W3UR > > says this has been asked a lot lately. I'll try my best to explain > > this, according to my understanding of it. I do think it's kind of > > hard to understand. First, the way it used to be: When a country > > ceased to exist, it became a "deleted" country but still counted > > toward your DXCC grand total of countries. Hence, some old timers > > have had 390 or so countries, though there currently are only 335 > > countries in existence. When DXCC was revamped in 2000, that concept > > was changed to this: When a country ceases to exist it does not go > > into you "deleted entities" list but is taken away from your all-time > > total. Hence, there will be no new "deleted" entities that count in > > your total. Bernie and I both prefer the old way. > > -------------------- > > > > My comment is that I, and all DXers that I have discussed this with, also > > agree that the old way is better. I do not see any logical reason to > > "expunge" (hope the spelling is right) a credit that was earned by a DXer. > > The only possible reason that I can even think of is so the "new guys", > > whoever they are, can get at the top of the all time list without having > to > > work at it for years. Seems foolish to me to ignore the accomplishments of > a > > long time DXer and his high "all time count" when the previous "current > > country count" is also available. Number 1 plaques are available as is top > > of the honor roll listing for all "current" countries. Keep the all time > > counts going. > > > > Any chance that we can get the League to reverse this absurd position? > > > > 73, Bruce K1MY > > > > > > Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems > > http://njdxa.org/dx-chat > > > > To post a message, DX related items only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA > > http://njdxa.org > > > > > > >
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