[CQ-Contest] Deleted ARRL sections

[Robert Chudek - K0RC]

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

Really? When was this?

Actually, this whole discussion is very interesting. It would make a good 
nostalgia piece in QST or NCJ.

73 de Bob - K0RC in MN


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K0HB" <kzerohb at gmail.com>
To: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker at kenharker.com>; "CQ Contest" 
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Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Deleted ARRL sections


>
> Florida is now >>THREE<< sections....  SFL, NFL, and WCF (West Central
> Florida).
>
> Minnesota once was two sections, North MN and South MN.
>
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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> From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker at kenharker.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:45 PM
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> 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
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