2012 is the 75^th anniversary of the ARRL’s DXCC Award--the world’s preeminent DXing award continues to be DXCC, so reaching the “Diamond milestone” is an event that we all want to celebrate.  Going back to the roots of the award, and specifically reading the 1937 DXCC List (January, 1937 QST  pages 52-3), we can learn what countries were counted at the onset led us to create the Diamond DXCC Challenge. ...Full story

The intent of this 75th anniversary award is to capture the essence and spirit of the first DXCC List with a fun operating activity that allows us to look back and appreciate the wonderful geography of Amateur Radio. We don’t intend to try to fit every existing scrap of land into one of the 1937 entities. Some stations we work today will not count towards any entity from 1937. Nor do some of the places we have chosen to represent a certain entity fully match what existed in 1937. The Diamond DXCC awards are not numbered, so relax and enjoy the chase for this is a year-long operating event. We will continue to roll-out improvements in the web tools and information provided.

Thanks to W3LPL, IK2NVR, YO3JW, JA1WWO, K8OM, SV2KBS, W1XG and K9JF for their assistance with this project.