[CQ-Contest] Deleted ARRL sections

[David Pruett]

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