[CQ-Contest] Spring & NAQP

Tue Jan 27 15:24:29 EST 2015

Leigh, 

Please.

SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...

Look.  With all due respect to you and others that have twisted my words, I
have not in many months said I am asking anyone publicly to change the ARRL
SS.

They use Sections.  I get it.  Move on !  Nobody from up here has asked on
this forum any other public forum to make the ARRL SS sweep impossible. 

The ARRL SS uses RAC sections and that is unfortunately out of my control.

I agreed many months ago to stop "whining" as you say, about the SS and
petition any changes here.

SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...

My posts here are ALL, I repeat for anyone here than cannot read, A-L-L
concerned with the SSB SPRINTS, the CW/RTTY SPRINTS

and the CaQP. (all 3 are independent organizations)  This came to a head
because of the SSB SPRINTNs.

SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...

Read man, read !  I see people saying SS, NAQP etc,.  Nobody from up here
has said that !

SHEESH! 

SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...

Mike VE9AA

Hans knows the answer to his question, of course -- ARRL section multipliers
in 

contests are reflections of the ARRL Field Organization maps.    As for
states, 

there are 50 states.  Pick up a flag and start counting stars.  

You know, I really don't have strong feelings on this subject, I don't
really 

oppose the notion of a VE9 multiplier in the SS.  But I have to object that
so 

many of us are being forced through this discussion simply because a few
people 

want to look for ways to gain personal advantages in contests.  That is
purely 

what it is, you know.  Here in California many top-notch SS scores are
already 

lacking MAR section multipliers due to the distance and poor representation 

from that section due to low populations, why should we have to listen to 

whiners who want Maritime broken up into five sections in the SS just to
make 

them rarer DX?  The process should be: the ARRL Field Organization organizes

determines what comprises a section!  Ah, yes, there is politics here -- why

didn't I say the RAC determines what a section is in Canada? Anybody? Does
the 

RAC co-sponsor the SS contest?  There's real opportunity here, you know.
I've 

got the notion that there may even be some ARRL directo

rs who would just as soon let RAC take over SS sponsorship completely.  Not 

that I like the idea, you know.

Leigh S. Jones KR6X

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB