[CQ-Contest] Deleted ARRL sections

[K0HB]

Florida is now >>THREE<< sections....  SFL, NFL, and WCF (West Central 
Florida).

Minnesota once was two sections, North MN and South MN.


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From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker at kenharker.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:45 PM
To: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Deleted ARRL sections

>     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?
>
> -- 
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker at kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
>
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