You may be partially right, but we have 35 members in the Maritime Contest
Club and another 4 or 5 active or semi active stations that contest, that
are NOT part of the club. Granted , not everyone is on for every contest,
but as I said before, for any of the popular contests, we are much more
prevalent than some sections or States in the USA.
I would say on average and as an example we have 10 ACTIVE members for the
CQWW contests.
Try finding 10 Rhode Island, Delaware , Montana or East Bay stations on !
Mike VE9AA
Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith
699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge
NB
Canada
E6L 1T1
----- Original Message -----
From: ZR
To: Mike & Coreen Smith ; Topband
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: My take on ARRL 160 (MAR)
Low ham population and a small geographical area Mike.
You, or anyone else aint gonna change the ARRL for any reason...its a
dictatorship.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
To: "Topband" <Topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: My take on ARRL 160 (MAR)
> In a slightly different vein (but keeping with the same theme overall
> theme).....
>
> "MAR" section includes NB (VE9), NS (VE1) and VY2 (PEI).....sometimes
MAR
> even included VO1 and VO2 !!!
>
> We have to compete against hams in three provinces for most ARRL
contests.
> Does RI get lumped in with EMA and CT? - Nope!
> Does Montana get lumped in with Wyoming and Kansas? - Nope!
>
> Why is it the ARRL sees it fit to make three provinces compete against
one
> another?
> Tell me what other 48 contiguous states compete against one another?
>
> Maybe 50 years ago there was little to no activity in, what was then,
> always
> VE1, but for most any semi-major or major contest that happens, you will
> work 5-10 MAR stations with VE1, 9 and VY2 prefixes. We've had separate
> prefixes here since the early 1990's.......approaching 20 yrs !!!
>
> I would rather compete against my province-mates.
>
> Mike VE9AA (NB and proud of it !)
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