dx magazine's "2007 most wanted survey results". you may want to pick up
a copy of the january/february 2008 "the dx magazine". the magazine has
the results of the top 100 "most wanted countries" for the year 2007.
the survey's breakdown and results were done by carl smith/n4aa (dx mag's
editor), roger western/g3sxw and tim kirby/g4vxe. the "top ten" countries
(entities) in the "world-wide" ranking mixed modes are as follows (listed
with last year's results):
2007 dxcc 2006
rank entity rank
--------- --------------- -----------
1 north korea (p5) 3
2 yemen (7o) 4
3 navassa (kp1) 5
4 glorioso (fr/g) 6
5 bouvet (3y/b) 7
6 marion island (zs8) 9
7 desecheo (kp5) 8
8 scarborough reef (bs7h) 1
9 crozet (ft8w) 11
10 heard island (vk0/h) 10
from the looks of the list, last year's top 5 entities have moved up
two. why? two major operations in 2007 have caused this change in the
list. first was the lakshadweep (vu7) operations in late 2005 and early
2007. vu7's ranking last year was 2, but now it is 64 (wow! what a drop.).
then there was scarborough reef (bs7h) in may 2006. bs7h went from a
ranking of 1 to 8. this number is real deceiving. after further looking
at the breakdown of the regional charts, bs7h's ranking (*w/2006) are as
follows: europe only - 28 (1), asia only - 39 (7) and north america -
3 (1). no charts were published in the article for the vk/zl, south america
and africa. north american stations may find this interesting. ranking by
time zones: pacific - 20 (4), mountain - 8 (3), central 3 (1) and eastern
3 (1). for more details on the results, please pick-up a copy of this
super publication. also, carl, n4aa, editor of "the dx magazine" and "qrz
dx newsletter", will usually have a listing of the results on the following
web page at:
http://www.dxpub.com/we will make an announcement when they are added to that web site. one last
note: also in this january/february 2008 issue is the interesting story
of the bs7h operation.
