[CQ-Contest] DC and NAQP

[Jeffrey Embry]

All,

If this is indeed the case, then perhaps Virginia, Massachusetts, Kentucky,
and Pennsylvania, while politically different are technically Commonwealths
and not States.

While I will admit that DC is not a state, but Constitutionally a 'Federal
City' is is a separate political entity.  Personally, I can see no reason
why DC should not be its own mult.  But, one wants to play semantics with
words and definitions, then remove the Commonwealths as multipliers.

73,

Jeff
K3OQ




On Friday, August 10, 2012, George Fremin III wrote:

> The mults in NAQP are US states, Canadian provinces and north American
> countries.
>
> DC is not a state.
>
> The rules do mention DC and say that it counts as MD for this contest.
>
> --
> George Fremin III
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Mike Tessmer <mtessmer at mindspring.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > With this talk about new sections/multipliers, I think what NN3W may
> have hinted at is:
> >
> > Why is DC not a multiplier in the NAQP?
> >
> > I asked this same question a few years ago and got exactly one answer
> that implied that adding DC might render all NAQP records meaningless, or
> something to that effect.  That's a very weak argument in that having
> someone show up from DC would have no more effect on any record than having
> someone show up from Greenland or any Caribbean or Central American
> country.  (Yet we'd all be saying "Great to see some DX activity!"}
> >
> > So I'll toss it out there again:
> >
> > - Why not add DC as a mult in NAQP?
> > - What would be a valid reason not to?
> >
> > Perhaps one of the NAQP managers might chime in.
> >
> >
> > 73, Mike K9NW
> >
> >
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