DXer’s will be thrilled to hear this good news.  Congratulations to all who assisted in the effort. 

The long awaited implementation of field entry of DXCC data scheduled for this year should relieve some of these perennial year-end “crunch” times.   This weekend I’m checking almost 600 cards for an applicant’s 5BDXCC application.   With field entry of electronic data, the DXCC Desk would be relieved of the time-consuming task of keyboarding in the 25 pages of DXCC Record sheets in this application.  The card checker could just make any corrections or changes needed in the data file, and then email the file to HQ to be reviewed and then imported into the DXCC records.  That will save countless  hours of staff time, and promote greater accuracy in the DXCC records!

Cliff, K0CA

From: Kramer, Harold, WJ1B [mailto:wj1b@arrl.org]
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 3:02 PM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:18617] DXCC Status

From Dave Patton:

As of today, Friday, 26 February, there are no applications waiting to be entered into the DXCC system including all of the applications that were received in January and February.  Final processing and award fulfillment for these 2010 applications will be completed next week.  This means that next week, our turn-around time will be 2 weeks for newly received DXCC applications.

DXCC staff and some trained employees from other departments, put in a massive effort throughout February to process all of 2009’s applications so that the DXCC Yearbook could be completed and all the DXers waiting for their awards would receive expedited service.  The staff completed their work so well that they were able to dig into 2010’s work, and exceeded expectations by completely catching up with the 2010 applications 

The MVP department will return to normal hours March 1. 

We wish to thank all involved for their diligent efforts and personal sacrifice to help us meet our goal.

73,

Harold