[CQ-Contest] Move to disband MAR section in Canada (for contesting)

Glenn Wyant va3dx at sympatico.ca
Thu Oct 30 15:14:30 EDT 2014


Lets lump together Maine , NH , VT , MASS , Conn and call them
the NES ( new england section )



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard DiDonna NN3W" <richnn3w at verizon.net>
To: <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>; <wn3vaw at verizon.net>; <CQ-contest at contesting.com>
Cc: <ve5sf at rac.ca>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Move to disband MAR section in Canada (for 
contesting)


> The problem is that the ARRL/RAC run events like sweepstakes on a section 
> basis.  As it stands now, you're in the MAR province.  If you want to be 
> viewed as differently, you're going to have to convince RAC that you have 
> enough infrastructure support to break away one or more of the provinces 
> from the Maritime section.
>
>
> The same issue was addressed by the DC hams who wanted to be a separate 
> multiplier for separate events.  Where states and provinces were counted 
> as states and provinces (ARRLDX, ARRL 10, etc.), DC wanted to be treated 
> as a separate entity.  Where the ARRL counted the multiplier based on a 
> "section" basis (i.e., Sweeps), the ham community wanted to make clear 
> that there was not enough separation for DC to be classifiable as a 
> separate ARRL section.
>
>
> Same thing applies to the MAR section.
>
>
> 73 Rich NN3W
> 



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