100 MOST NEEDED COUNTRIES - WORLD WIDE

THE 2008 DX MAGAZINE 100 MOST NEEDED COUNTRIES SURVEY

was conducted in September and October 2008.

The complete breakdown by continent is available in

January/February 2009 Issue of THE DX MAGAZINE.

A breakdown by mode will be published in the March/April 2009 issue.

Editor Carl, N4AA, states, "The listing shows the top 100 World-Wide 'weighted' mixed mode results. It also includes the ranking for 2007, for comparison. Some 2007 rankings are shown as 'NA' which only means that particular country was NOT on the list for 2007.

The Top 100 results, broken down by continent and NA time zone, are published in the January/ February 2009 issue of THE DX MAGAZINE. A further breakdown will be published in the March/April 2009 issue. That listing will include the top 50 for CW, SSB, Digital and this year a listing for Low Bands (160-30 meters.)"

The survey that most DXers go by is now available at: http://dxpub.com/dx_news.html

The "Top Ten Most Wanted" are as follows:

2008 PREFIX / COUNTRY 2007
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1 P5 NORTH KOREA 1
2 7O YEMEN 2
3 KP1 NAVASSA 3
4 FR/G GLORIOSO 4
5 ZS8 MARION ISLAND 6
6 KP5 DESECHEO 7
7 3Y/B BOUVET 5
8 VK0H HEARD ISLAND 10
9 FT5W CROZET 9
10 FT5Z AMSTERDAM 11