"The number of Sections needed for a clean sweep in the ARRL November Sweepstakes (SS) will rise to 84 in 2020, with the addition of a new Prince Edward Island (PE) Section. Radio Amateurs of Canada
Looks like VY2TT plans to be active in SSB. The station is available for CW. http://www.peidxlodge.com/reservations.htm 73, Paul, N8HM _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest maili
PEI is a thoroughly delightful place with a couple of big stations. I suspect the real effect will be to make the Maritime section harder to get. It's enough to encourage a road trip to New Brunswic
Author: Larry via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 03:24:20 +0000 (UTC)
have you forgotten Mr. 160? VY2ZM! PEI is a thoroughly delightful place with a couple of big stations. I suspect the real effect will be to make the Maritime section harder to get. It's enough to en
If you think it's a challenge from the Mid-Atlantic region, consider what it's like from W6. Any changes to contest rules that increase the advantage of east coast contesters seems to be OK with HQ!
Any worse than ONN? Sometimes it's just VE3CX or Tom and me. 73, -- 73, Jack, VE3RUA/K0JP _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://list
".PEI is a thoroughly delightful place with a couple of big stations. I suspect the real effect will be to make the Maritime section harder to get. It's enough to encourage a road trip to New Brunswi
Although I did not enjoy the slag by Pete, he's actually right. Folks in general (there are exceptions) don't enjoy having to send "MAR" when they could be sending PE, NB or NS, so participation is a
Somehow I doubt whether the new PE section will make clean sweeps impossible or even that much more difficult; the retirement of the VY1AAA station in NT is a bigger threat to the clean sweep. 73, Ri
With apologies to Mike and the other VE9s. my reason in specifying NB was simply that it's closer to me by a fair distance than Nova Scotia. I've actually never had any trouble getting MAR in Sweeps
For Sweepstakes purposes, why does the ARRL remain committed to honoring new RAC (Radio Association of Canada) ARES Sections ? RAC ARES is splitting PEI from Maritime, hence the new SS section. This
Mike, With the right to do that comes the responsibility to be able to work HP, LP, and QRP stations from every section in the contest. That means serious RX antennas for 80 and 160M pointed WEST, an
This post points out the obvious difference of QTH. From the eastern half of the US and Canada, the eastern provinces are easy and the western provinces are hard. From the western parts of NA, the ea
I'm no fan of the ARRL in general, and I can think of reasons not to get serious about any particular contest, but boycotting one in which I would otherwise participate simply because I didn't get to
That is not necessarily true: Imagine if a 100 watt PEI station operated Sweepstakes only on 21/28 MHz. There would be little chance of working them from New England or the mid-Atlantic because of th
That is interesting. It begs the question why is PEI special for multiplier purposes? Why PEI vs. the rest of the Maritimes? Seems to me that if you have PEI as a separate section, then you should al
Putting NFL and LAB as separate multipliers would really make a Clean Sweep difficult. Let's hope they never make VY1, VY0, and VE8 separate multipliers. 73 John W5TDD _______________________________
I think that the ARRL should be logically consistent in determining what constitutes a mult for contest purposes. How hard it might be to work shouldnt enter into it, same as with any other ARRL cont
Author: "Richard F. DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 14:36:57 -0500
You're asking about ARRL section issues. ARRL has their reason for certain sections. Kinda like Maryland-DC which incorporates an independent state and a Federal district. 73 Rich NN3W Why PEI vs.
THANK YOU Pete. Your comment wasn't taken to heart and I know you did not mean to insult. You are welcome in NB to operate any time you want. In fact, I encourage fellas to come up to Canada and oper