And I forgot to mention reverting VI and PR to WI (West Indies, not
Wisc.). And way back (as I recall from old QSTs) MB, AL and SK were all
one section.
I would crack wise about reinstituting CZ, but somebody would take it as a
political comment.
And maybe we could require everybody to use a call sign that indicated
their actual location, so I could log a W5 in NT or a W4 in SF and not have
it confused with Northern Territories or San Francisco.
And while we're at it, let's reinstitute the 10-word message, including
date-time group.
73, Art K3KU
CU SS
On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb@gmail.com> wrote:
> And hey, as long as we're objecting to changing the mults in SS, shouldn't
> go way-back-when to the time that Minnesota was two sections?
>
> 73, de Hans, KØHB
> "Just a Boy and his Radio"™
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 20:36 Art Boyars <artboyars@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> (Sorry if this has already been addressed. I'm behind in reading the
>> Reflector postings.)
>>
>> "The only thing I would do to improve SS is to delete those four VE3
>> sections and go back to ON."
>>
>> What in the world are you talking about? RAC made new Sections; they
>> become multipliers in SS. It's been that way longer than any of us can
>> remember.
>>
>> Should we delete WCF and go back to just NFla and SFla? Should we delete
>> DE and go back to MDD? How about WTX?
>>
>> Would you delete ORG and go back to just LAX and SDG? (And delete whatever
>> Calif Sections got added since the first SS?)
>>
>> And would you support DC as a mult in SS, because the (only) justification
>> for it's not being a Mult is that it is not an ARRL Section?
>>
>> Sheesh!
>>
>> 73, Art K3KU
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