Let's take it a step further - any contests that break up YU, NU, adnNWT
into separate mutls should also include Mexcian states as mults. Then
next, does Belize have states? :.)
Barry W2UP
On 12/25/2010 8:36 PM, Jimk8mr@aol.com wrote:
> In contests that distinguish between Canada's Yukon, Northwest Territories,
> and Nunavut, it makes as much or more sense to recognize the District of
> Columbia as being separate from Maryland. As scare as DC might be, it still
> has more active hams (or at least more active hams that can be heard
> through auroral propagation) than all three of those territories combined.
>
> In contests that combine those three territories into one multiplier, it is
> logical is to include the District of Columbia as part of Maryland.
>
> Likewise, in contests that use ARRL/RAC sections, it follows to use the
> MDC section. (The Canadian northern territories are not an RAC section; they
> are a special exception from their administrative treatment of being part
> of the Alberta section).
>
> The NAQP is the first type of contest - it counts the three Canadian
> northern territories as separate multipliers.
>
>
> 73 - Jim K8MR
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 12/25/2010 10:07:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jackbrindle@me.com writes:
>
> That is kind of the point. Washington, DC is not a state either. Let's
> leave well enough alone.
>
> Jack Brindle, W6FB
>
>
>>> On Dec 24, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Richard F DiDonna NN3W wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good choice. While we're at it, how about adding Washington, D.C. as
> a
>>>> multiplier?
>
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