[CQ-Contest] There goes the Clean Sweep

[John Geiger]

Putting NFL and LAB as separate multipliers would really make a Clean Sweep
difficult.  Let's hope they never make VY1, VY0, and VE8 separate
multipliers.

73 John W5TDD

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 1:02 PM Bob Shohet, KQ2M <kq2m at kq2m.com> wrote:

> That is interesting.  It begs the question why is PEI special for
> multiplier purposes?
>
> Why PEI vs. the rest of the “Maritimes”?
>
> Seems to me that if you have PEI as a separate section, then you should
> also have NB and NS as separate sections.
> And NFLD and LAB should be separate as well.
>
> 73
>
> Bob,  KQ2M
>
>
> From: Steve London
> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2020 10:18 AM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] There goes the Clean Sweep
>
> For Sweepstakes purposes, why does the ARRL remain committed to honoring
> new RAC
> (Radio Association of Canada) ARES Sections ?  RAC ARES is splitting PEI
> from
> Maritime, hence the new SS section.
>
> This is the same reasoning that Ontario was split into 4 SS sections a few
> years
> ago.
>
> Of course, the ARRL contradicted their own reasoning by splitting Alberta
> and
> Yukon into different SS sections, even though they are the same RAC ARES
> section.
>
> https://www.rac.ca/ares-sections/
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
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