The original DXCC location rule was ridiculous and discriminatory. I was
arbitrary base FCC call areas which are essentially diluted by waiving
the portable slash bar requirement.
I remember having to start over three times as W0VXO in Minnesota and
Iowa. But when I crossed the Mississippi River from Davenport to Rock
Island to attend college I had to start all over again as K9GGT as I
lived at Home in Rock Island. But traveling several hundred miles to
Minneapolis to finish at the University of Minnesota I got to use my
Iowa credits. My first major employment after college was at Gates
Radio Co. in Quincy, Illinois so I set up shop in across the river in
Maywood, MO to avoid losing my W0 DXCC credits. But then I started the
whole process over again in 1968 from the Virgin Islands first as
W0VXO/KV4 and the as KV4FZ. That made sense but the others didn't. The
irony of this is that when I spent a few months in Durango, CO where
working JA's on top band was easy with an inverted L . I was a different
world on 160. But look at the land mass for the W0 call area and
compare that to W3 and W2 were some hams were frozen at their starting
point and had to travel hundreds of miles each day to work just to
prevent losing their DXCC credits. It was a strange rule and ignored
the persons (constitutional) right to travel. Ironically a Russian ham
could be anywhere from just East of the Ural Mountains and move several
thousand miles all the way to the Bering Straits without a penalty as
long as long as he was inside the DXCC "country" of Asiatic Russia.
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
On 1/29/2015 2:52 PM, Tom W8JI wrote:
I remember when W2EQS/W9NFC had to start his 160 DXCC over from zero
from Indiana because he moved from NJ to Indiana. Today, he could move
from California to Maine and keep his totals.
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