ARRL DX Century Club (DXCC) Rules — 1956 Edition

ARRL DX Century Club (DXCC) Rules — 1956 Edition

(Effective May 1, 1956; augmenting and superseding the 1955 rules)

TYPED TRANSCRIPTION — QST, March 1956

DXCC RULES (Excerpt)

For the benefit of those who aspire to ARRL’s DXCC Award, and for others who already have the certificate and may seek further endorsements, we present here the complete rules. Attention is particularly called to Rules 4, 5, 11 and 13.

1. The Century Club Award Certificate for confirmed contacts with 100 or more countries is available to all amateurs everywhere in the world.

2. Confirmations must be submitted direct to ARRL Headquarters for all countries claimed. Claims for a total of 100 countries must be included with first application. Confirmation from foreign contest logs may be requested in the case of the ARRL International DX Competition only, subject to the following conditions:
    a) Sufficient confirmations of other types must be submitted so that these, plus the DX Contest confirmations, will total 100. In every case, contest confirmations must not be requested for any countries from which the applicant has regular confirmations. That is, contest confirmations will be granted only in the case of countries from which applicants have no regular confirmations.

Additional Rules (Selections)

b) Look up the Contest results as published in QST to see if your man is listed in the foreign scores. If he isn’t, he did not send in a log and no confirmation is possible.
c) Give year of Contest, date and time of QSO.
d) In future DX Contests, do not request confirmations until after the final results have been published, usually in one of the early fall issues. Requests before this time must be ignored.

3. The ARRL Countries List printed periodically in QST will be used in determining what constitutes a “country.”

4. Confirmations must be accompanied by a list of claimed countries and stations to aid in checking and for future reference.

5. Confirmations from additional countries may be submitted for credit each time ten additional confirmations are available. Endorsements for affixing to certificates and showing the new confirmed total (110, 120, 130, etc.) will be awarded as additional credits are granted. ARRL DX Competition logs from foreign stations may be utilized for these endorsements, subject to conditions stated under (2).

6. All contacts must be made with amateur stations working in the authorized amateur bands or with other stations licensed to work amateurs.

7. In cases of countries where amateurs are licensed in the normal manner, credit may be claimed only for stations using regular, government-assigned call letters. No credit may be claimed for contacts with stations in any countries in which amateurs have been temporarily closed down by special government edict where amateur licenses were formerly issued in the normal manner.

8. All stations contacted must be “land stations”; contacts with ships, anchored or otherwise, and aircraft, cannot be counted.

9. All stations must be contacted from the same call area, where such areas exist, or from the same country in cases where there are no call areas. One exception is allowed to this rule: where a station is moved from one call area to another, or from one country to another, all contacts must be made from within a radius of 150 miles of the initial location.

10. Contacts may be made over any period of years from November 15, 1945, provided only that all contacts are made under the provisions of Rule 9, and by the same station licensee; contacts may have been made under different call letters in the same area or country, if the licensee for all was the same.

11. All confirmations must be submitted exactly as received from the stations worked. Any altered or forged confirmations submitted for C.C. credit will result in disqualification of the applicant. The eligibility of any DXCC applicant who was ever barred from DXCC to reapply, and the conditions for such application, shall be determined by the Awards Committee. Any holder of the Century Club Award submitting forged or altered confirmations must forfeit his right to be considered for further endorsements.

12. Operating Ethics: Fair play and good sportsmanship in operating are required of all amateurs working toward the DX Century Club Award. In the event of specific objections relative to continued poor operating ethics, an individual may be disqualified from the DXCC by action of the ARRL Awards Committee.

13. Sufficient postage for the return of confirmations must be forwarded with the application. In order to insure the safe return of large batches of confirmations, it is suggested that enough postage be sent to make possible their return by first-class mail, registered.

14. Decisions of the ARRL Awards Committee regarding interpretation of the rules as here printed or later amended shall be final.

15. Address all applications and confirmations to the Communications Department, ARRL, 38 La Salle Road, West Hartford 7, Conn.

DXCC NOTES (March 1956)

Announcement is hereby made of the following addition to the ARRL Countries List. The addition will be the island of Tromelin. This island is located approximately 250 miles off NE Madagascar in 54 degrees longitude.

DXCC credit will be given starting May 1, 1956, for creditable confirmations dated on or after November 15, 1945. This will permit foreign amateurs to start receiving credits at the same time as those in U.S.A. Confirmations received prior to May 1, 1956 for this country will be returned without credit.

In future ARRL DX Competitions, those making contact with amateur stations located on the island of Tromelin may claim credit for a separate country in accordance with DXCC rules.

QST, March 1956