DXCC has always been a mix of real countries and remote islands and land strips, also in the good old days (I remember exotic places like Minerva Reef, Serrana Bank, Desroches, Farquhar etc etc, most of them valid from the start of DXCC and deleted in the 70/80's). So DXCC does and did NOT mean DX Country Club but DX Century Club. Anyway, I gess you missed some opportunities to work BS7 or was not interested then. No reason to be frustrated now. I worked BS7 in 1995 and 1997 which was not too difficult fm EU. Andaman has been off the air much longer. I think working all these rare places is part of the challenge. Challenge in this case means that you sometimes have to wait for years. (Haven't we been waiting decades for China and Albania). If you do not like this challenge don't go for it. If you do NOT want to work entities like Peter 1, Scarborough, Kure etc do NOT work them. No one is forcing you to do so.
Wim PA0WRS Citeren Tom Wylie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Here we go again. All the American big guns have worked everything - > so now we have to invent more entities. > Why dont we go back to the good old days when we worked Countries? D X > C C???? Remind me what it stands for. > If we want to call them entities ARRL should start a new award for > WAEn Worked all Entities we could have a WAEn1 > for political entities and a WAEn2 for the geographical ones. > > There are loads of places which hardly reflect the status of countries > like Peter 1, Scarborough Reef to name but two. > > Now we will have another big guns race to work them all again! > > Tom Wylie GM4FDM > > > > Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: > >> Although I'm quite good at Geography, I don't have the foggiest > >> what will become a candidate, however. Any guesses out there? > >> One other reflector I'm a member of suggested Swain's Reef > >> (supposedly out near Saipan). > >> > > > > Looking over the Department of State list, it appears that American > > Samoa and the Northern Marianas would move from "point 2" entities > > (geographic separation) to "point 1" entities (political entities). > > As such, the distance requirement for "separation by water" drops > > from 800 km to 350 km. > > > > This change may qualify Swain's Island (attached to American Samoa) > > but one source gives a separation for 320 km from Tutuila (location > > of the capital, Pago Pago). I have not looked closely enough at > > Northern Marianas to see if there are any outlying islands that > > might qualify there. > > > > As far as I can tell, all of the other entities on the Department > > of State list either already qualify as "Political entities" ... > > or fail to meet the "local administration" test. > > > > 73, > > > > ... Joe, W4TV > > > > > > Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems > > http://njdxa.org/dx-chat > > > > To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org > > > > This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA > > http://njdxa.org > > > > > > > > > > Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems > http://njdxa.org/dx-chat > > To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org > > This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA > http://njdxa.org > > Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, dx-chat@njdxa.org This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
