[CQ-Contest] Deleted ARRL sections

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:40:41PM -0500, Ron Notarius W3WN 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.

Well - take the case of Washington (WA) in 1989.  It was split into Eastern
Washington (EWA) and Western Washington (WWA).  For the purposes of contest
awards and records, WA was "deleted" in the exact same sense that the DXCC
entity of Czechoslovakia was deleted when it split into the separate DXCC
entities of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic in 1992.

In other cases, wuch as West Central Florida (WCF) in 2000, the new section
was created from counties that had previously been assigned to other sections
(NFL and SFL) that continue to exist in a modified form.

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Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
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