One of the depressing things about leaving entities on the list that not
active and may be decades before they become active is the fact that
someone puts up a big station, dedicates a lot of $$ and time to achieving
Top of the Honor Roll and dies before he gets there. So I guess a lot of
getting there is when you were born and how long you live. In my case I do
have a few that are difficult to get today. I checked Club Log most wanted
for North America East Coast CW and in the top dozen I have BV9P Paratas
Is., CE0X San Felix Is., KH7K Kure Is., and FT5X Kerguelen Is. So I assume
that some folks today would really like to have some of these in there log?
73
Bruce NJ3K

On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 17:55:45 -0400, Dave AA6YQ <aa6yq@...>
wrote:
> + AA6YQ comments below
>
> With all due respect, Dave, a love it or leave it pronouncement is not
> acceptable.
>
> + In your opinion. For many DXers, the top of the DXCC Honor Roll has
been
> a lifelong pursuit. Changing the rules because some DXers consider them
> "too hard" would be an insult.
>
>
> governments take old laws off their books (ex: Massachusetts blue laws),
> so why shouldn’t DXCC.
>
> + DXCC isn't a law. There is no "worked all laws" award.
>
>
> i need need three to have worked them all. I will be patient with
> Glorioso.  less patient with P5, and somewhat angry that some dxers
(such
> as russians) have multiple opportunities to work them while others have
> zero opportunity.  And not all all patient with BS7. It needs 5i be
> reviewed, and if there is no chance that it will ever reemerge, in this
> century at least, removed from the list.
>
> + Focus on what you can control: your station, your operating skills,
your
> understanding of propagation, and your awareness of DXing activities.
Small
> operations have in the past activated rare DXCC entities with little or
no
> warning; be ready.
>
> + When I got my Novice ticket in 1990, some DXers were agitating for the
> removal of Albania, where amateur radio had been forbidden for decades.
> China had been similarly unavailable for many years. I reached the top
of
> the SSB Honor Roll in 2008. I still need North Korea in CW, as well as
> Bouvet, Scarborough, Crozet, and Kerguelen in RTTY. Reaching the top of
the
> CW Honor Roll via the deletion of North Korea would be disgusting. 
>
>      73,
>
>             Dave, AA6YQ
>
>
>
>
>

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Bruce A. Manning