[CQ-Contest] Announcing the North America SSB Sprint-boycott from "MAR"

[Kelly Taylor]

Complaining about contests that do not use sections but lump areas together:
valid. You go, girl!

Complaining that contests that do use sections should somehow separate those
sections: not so much.

Sections are created by the field services needs of ARRL and RAC. That they
are also contest multipliers is merely coincidental: Neither organization
creates an entire administrative structure of a section merely for the
purposes of a multiplier.

73, kelly
ve4xt


On 1/24/15 9:15 AM, "Paul Stoetzer" <n8hm at arrl.net> wrote:

> By the way, unlike Mike, I have no problems with sections being used as the
> multipliers in ARRL Sweepstakes or ARRL 160, but I don't like DC being
> lumped in with Maryland in contests where states are multipliers (nor do I
> approve of it being lumped in with Maryland for WAS). There's no good
> reason to do so. DC stands on it's own as a completely separate political
> entity from Maryland.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Paul, N8HM
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:18 PM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> You need to boycott RAC.  They set up the sections in Canada.
>> 
>> 
>> SS has always used sections as mults, not states or provinces.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> MDC is a Section, MAR is a Section.  So are WNY, WTX, WV, WY, and WCF.
>> 
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA
>> <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> This is no slight to the fine fellows of the Sprint, nor my many FB
>> friends
>>> in "contesting land",
>>> but please read my comments re: "MAR".(found in your rules).my opinions
>> are
>>> those of most of the members of MCC, so
>>> although I won't officially speak "for them", you can rest assured most
>> of
>>> them feel the same way.
>>> I have now rec'd 3 direct emails re: the Sprints, so feel I can comment
>>> publicly on this as I am being targeted to get on and be active.
>>> ==================
>>> 
>>> Bob/Chris/Dean et al, VE9=NB, VE1=NS, and VY2=PEI.has been since
>> 1993.there
>>> is no such thing as a Maritime contest section except in the minds of the
>>> ARRL for Sweepstakes and evidently the NA Sprints. (all others allow
>>> provinces)
>>> Even in our own RAC contests, we are allowed to use our respective
>>> provinces.
>>> 
>>> You may wonder why participation in (All) Sprints is so extremely low
>> from
>>> (ahem) what you call "MAR"...now you know.  Participation is historically
>>> low for any contest which forces us to use an arbitrary multiplier
>> lumping 3
>>> official provinces together.  I know, I have checked.
>>> 
>>> Please change the rules to reflect what 98% of other contests allow
>>> (everyone to send their own province) and I will bet you a cold 807
>> activity
>>> levels will go up.  I myself will make it a point to get on for every
>> one.
>>> 
>>> With respect, but I will be boycotting this contest (and all Sprints),
>> ARRL
>>> SS and the CaQP probably forever until it changes.
>>> 
>>> Mike VE9AA
>>> p.s.- As promised, I passed the message along to the MCC group, but you
>> can
>>> realistically expect a low turnout - sorry.
>>> p.p.s- I mean, you wouldn't expect a section to be created that combined
>> RI,
>>> DE and ME and call it RIDE ME, now would you?  Who would want to compete
>> in
>>> that?
>>> p.p.p.s-My other option is to get on, participate and send "NB" but
>> that's
>>> just being evil.  I don'\t want to mess up everyones logs, I just want
>>> fairness across the board.
>>> 
>>> Mike dit dit
>>> 
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