The Diamond DXCC Challenge
2012 is the 75th anniversary of the ARRL's DXCC Award, the world's
preeminent DXing award.
To celebrate this important milestone, the ARRL
has gone back to the beginning - the 1937 DXCC List. The Diamond DXCC
Challenge will test DXers ability to contact all the 231 entities on
the original DXCC List.
ARRL tried to find corresponding entities today that would represent
the places listed in 1937, and they were mostly successful.
There are a
couple of places that were merged, like French and British New
Hebrides, and the Papua and New Guinea Territories.
In those places,
for 2012 if you work a YJ or a P29 (on the main island of New Guinea)
you will get credit for working two entities!
Many other oddities are
sprinkled throughout the list, too. Returning to the air in 2012 will
be the Canal Zone (any HP operating within 8 kilometers of the Panama
Canal), the Cities of Gdansk, Poland, as well as Ifni, Morocco and
Balochistan.
For some entities that now consist of multiple countries, you may work
any of today's entities to qualify for that single 1937 country.
For
example, French Equatorial Africa will be considered worked if you log
a station in TL, TN, TR or TT in 2012. The Diamond DXCC country tables
show the current entity names and prefixes that qualify for the 1937
countries.
Read more here
http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-diamond-dxcc-challenge
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