[CQ-Contest] Deleted ARRL sections

[Zack Widup]

I doubt anyone operated Sweepstakes from Baja Nuevo, Serrana Bank, Roncador
Cay or Swan Island when they were possessed by the US, but out of curiosity,
what section would they have fit under?

The Pacific islands now all fit under "PAC" but was this ever different?

Just curious.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net>wrote:

> Strictly speaking, none of these sections are "deleted."  As population
> increases and other factors resulted in the creation of new sections from
> the restructured old ones, the original ones were simply renamed.
>
> Others have noted examples of this already, such as MDC
>
> The only truly deleted section I can think of is the old Canal Zone
> section.
> Although our northern brethren would know better than I how the old ARRL
> Canadian Division/CRRL sections have changed since CRRL & CARF merged to
> become RAC.
>
> Oh, let's not forget WCF being created as the third Florida section, NNY in
> NY State as it's fourth (ENY WNY NLI being the others), and wasn't it NTX
> as the third one in Texas, IIRC, in recent years?
>
> 73
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Kenneth E. Harker
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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
> kenharker at kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
>
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