[CQ-Contest] Spring & NAQP

[Leigh S. Jones, KR6X]

Excellent, that was a really nice comic response, so I think I should carry this forward.  I hope it can promote additional comic responses to raise the enjoyment of all here!  The N/A Sprint uses U.S. States and countries as multipliers.  It somehow seems to me that the sponsors are coddling VE9's a little heavily by not counting Canada as a single country, the way they do with Mexico!  Don't you think it would encourage more states in Mexico to be represented in the NA Sprint if each were separate multipliers? And why doesn't St. Thomas Island count as a different multiplier from St. Croix? It doesn't make sense the way these guys are doing this! Why, they're passing out special advantages as rare multipliers to Canadians and discriminating against so many others!

Once again, I truly don't give a hoot about this subject, and I don't want anyone taking these statements as my personal opinions.  What I really want is for all DX contests everywhere to substitute the distance between contacts in place of the QSO points.  It's unfair that a station in LU Argentina gets the same number of QSO points for a US contact as a station in 9Y.  

Leigh S. Jones, KR6X

> On Jan 27, 2015, at 12:24, Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> 
> Leigh, 
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> 
> 
> Please.
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> 
> 
> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
> 
> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
> 
> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
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> 
> 
> 
> 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.
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
> 
> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
> 
> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
> 
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> 
> 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.
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> 
> 
> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
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> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
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> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
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> Read man, read !  I see people saying SS, NAQP etc,.  Nobody from up here
> has said that !
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> 
> SHEESH! 
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> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
> 
> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
> 
> SSB SPRINT, CW/RTTY SPRINT and CaQP...
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> 
> 
> Mike VE9AA
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> 
> 
> 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 
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> 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
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> 
> 
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
> 
> Keswick Ridge, NB
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> 
> 
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