Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
> Some trivia in advance of the ARRL Sweepstakes this month...
>
> Probably everyone is familiar with the idea of deleted DXCC entities -
> countries that no longer exist but did at some point in the past during
> the DXCC program (for example, Czechoslovakia). In working on records for
> some of the ARRL contests that use sections for multipliers and awards,
> I've come across three deleted ARRL sections. They are:
>
> Washington (WA): deleted 6 February 1989
> The section was split into Eastern Washington (EWA) and Western Washington
> (WWA), principally to facilitate emergency communications on the two
> separate sides of the Cascade Mountains, which can be impassable in winter.
>
> Eastern Florida (EFL) and Western Florida (WFL): deleted 1 January 1973
> The ARRL field organization was reorganized in Florida by changing the two
> sections to Northern Florida (NFL) and Southern Florida (SFL). One of
> the primary reasons for the change was to better balance the overall
> population of the state - Western Florida, which was primarily just the
> panhandle region of the state, had many fewer hams than Eastern Florida.
>
> Now, my question to the really old-timers on the list is - are there others?
> Were states like Pennsylvania and Massachusetts at one point single sections,
> like Washington?
>
>
Ken,
How about Canal Zone (KZ5)? I"m pretty sure it was a section and
deleted in 1975 (if memory serves).
Dave/K8CC
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