The Postwar DX Century Club of 1947

The DXCC Post-WW2 List (1947). Second World War II caused a lot of political changes and this caused also lot of changes in the DXCC Countries List. It was not easy to construct a good Countries List, but the the ARRL cleared the job. The new DXCC list was published in February, 1947, QST (page 49-50). And thew new DXCC Rules were published a month later (QST, March, 1947 (page 69) Contacts from this first date , November,15, 1945 could be credited for the new Postwar DXCC. The First offcial Postwar DXCC Countries List This list counts 257 Entities. 42 Entities don’t have a prefix. So we can assume that in 1945, there were 257-42 = 215 workable entities. A hell of a job for all DX stations who liked to be member of that famous DX Century Club. And for the Postwar certificate, according to the new rules below, no Prewar contacts did count. Entities November 15, 1945: Active: 257 The NEW DX-CENTURY-CLUB AWARD (March, 1947, QST, page 69) Certificate for Amateurs Who Prove Postwar contact with 100 Countries We present below the rules under which the DX Century Club Award will be issued to amateurs who have worked and confirmed contact with 100 countries in the postwar period. They are effective for contacts made since November 15, 1945. Please note that the new award does not wash out your prewar DX work. If you worked fewer than 100 countries before the war and have since worked and confirmed a sufficient number to make the 100 mark, the DXCC is still available to you. See page 74 of June 1946 QST, for complete details on how to apply for such certification. The new award is available to any amateur who works 100 countries from November 15, 1945, and who submits satisfactory confirmations to ARRL. Prewar holders of the DXCC award and those who may have received certificates for work based on combined prewar and postwar work also may apply upon proper presentation of 100 postwar confirmations. The new certificate will be marked to differentiate it from awards previously made. Note, too, that you may now work for endorsements to certify, in steps of 10, your countries confirmed above 100. These will take the form of attractive stickers or coupons to be attached to your postwar certificate. The Countries List to be used in connection with the new DXCC was published in February QST. Please refer to it and the rules published herewith to determine how you stand in working for the Postwar DXCC award. 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 Competitions 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. 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 end 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." (February 1947 QST contains the postwar ARRL list.) 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 be 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 confirmation submitted for CC 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. Two different DXCC award Rules It is very clear in this Postwar Rules, that, if a ham would work on his Prewar DXCC score, he (or she) had to submit credits according those other DXCC rules, published in June, 1946, QST (page 74). However no listings of this Prewar DXCC were published ever again. Records of this prewar DXCC do not exist anymore.