[CQ-Contest] Deleted ARRL sections

[Barry]

Why was the NNY section created?

Was is to create a "rare" section for contesting?  Certainly population 
growth wasn't the reason.  Did someone with significant influence at 
ARRL push for it, similar to the creation of some questionable DXCC 
countries?

Barry W2UP

Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 09:57:28AM -0600, Idle-Tyme wrote:
>   
>> Now a question,  has the total numbers of sections remained the same?  
>> when one is split are two combined?  has the number always been the same?
>>     
>
> The number of sections has changed over time. The first sweepstakes contests 
> had 68 sections.  In 1990, there were 77 sections.  Today, there are 80 
> sections.  The most recent changes were:
>
>
> 1 Jan 1996   Northern New York (NNY) created from counties            78
>              previously assigned to Western New York (WNY)
>
> 1 Apr 1996   Two counties (Herkimer and Otsego) assigned to           78
>              the newly-created Northern New York (NNY) section
>              are returned to the Western New York (WNY)
>              section
>
> 1 Jan 1998   Newfoundland-Labrador section (NL) created,              79
>              removing that province from the Maritimes (MAR)
>              section
>
> 15 Jan 2000  West Central Florida (WCF) created from counties         80
>              previously assigned to Northern Florida (NFL)
>              and Southern Florida (SFL)
>
>
> I'm starting to collect these details as people on the reflector suggest them
> and I can research them in the online QST archive.
>
>
>  
>   
>> otherwise the mults are all messed up if someone was to try to compare a 
>> score with a all time record or similar ya know?
>>     
>
> The records on the ARRLWeb do not try to adjust for the changing number of
> sections over time.  The records for the ARRL International DX Contest also
> do not try to adjust for the varying number of available DXCC entities over
> time, either:
>
> http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/ss-alltime-cw.html
> http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/ss-alltime-phone.html
> http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/intldx-rec-cw.html
> http://www.arrl.org/contests/results/intldx-rec.html
>
>
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Barry Kutner, W2UP             Lakewood, CO