Last updated: 2006-08-25

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Chris R. Burger ZS6EZ
Box 4485
Pretoria
0001 South Africa
chris@zs6ez.za.org

The ARRL has never published a cumulative list of DXCC Honor Roll members. This situation is unfortunate, as the stalwarts of the past have slid down the listings with the gradual addition of new countries.

This list is an attempt to assemble a record of all past and current DXCC-HR members in South Africa. It may not be (and probably isn't) comprehensive. Please let me know if you have more information or stumble across something, so that we can include the information in a future list.

DXCC Honour Roll membership is restricted to those DXCC members that need less than ten countries confirmed. Totals do not include credit for deleted countries. In the early Eighties, the total number of countries was around 305. As DXCC country criteria have been rewritten, a plethora of new countries emerged over the following two decades. The collapse of the Iron Curtain also created several new countries and erased others, all of which meant that the DXCC list of today contains numbers that were unheard of a few decades ago. Consequently, the top stations of that era probably need several dozen countries today. Most of them have thus dropped off the Honour Roll list. To provide a basis for comparison with today's leading DXers, the score for each station is listed in terms of countries needed, as well as the actual scores and the number of countries at the time. Finally, each entry carries a year. This year is the best approximation of when the station in question achieved the listed level. Where several stations reached the same level, they are listed chronologically by the date on which they reached that level.

Finally, there are several stations that are known to have reached the Honour Roll, but exact dates and scores are not known. These have been listed with whatever information is available, and question marks as appropriate.

South African members are:

Mixed

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Historic Records

This list is a cumulative one, showing all past Honor Roll members. Some members have subsequently slid down the list, or even left the HR altogether. To see the annual lists as they were, follow the following links: