[CQ-Contest] A public thanks to CQP (and others who've tossed the MAR mult away)

[Yuri]

 >>>Ontario Golden Horseshoe GH

Hopefully this one will follow MAR's path soon.

73, Yuri VE3DZ

On 9/28/2023 3:06 PM, Gerry Hull wrote:
> Canada's sections for SS 2023:
>
> Alberta AB
> British Columbia BC
> Manitoba MB
> New Brunswick NB
> Newfoundland and Labrador NL
> Nova Scotia NS
> Ontario Golden Horseshoe GH
> Ontario East ONE
> Ontario North ONN
> Ontario South ONS
> Prince Edward Island PE
> Quebec QC
> Saskatchewan SK
> Territories TER
>
> I suspect NS will be the rare one and hard to get, especially in SS CW.
> Not a lot of active contesters in NS anymore,
> and none that I know of that will do Sweepstakes.
>
> I'll be operating from NB (via remote); N3JT as VY1JT from VY1JA's QTH (via
> remote)
> 73,
>
> Gerry W1VE aka VE1RM /VE9 for SS CW
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 7:15 PM Paul Bourque <pbourque at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The MAR section is no longer, effective 1-1-2023. NS and NB have been
>> added, as well as PE. The ARRL/RAC section list has been updated to reflect
>> that. There’s s link to the contest sections list on the ARRL Sweepstakes
>> web page.
>>
>> Paul Bourque, N1SFE
>> ARRL Contest Program Manager
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 4:44 PM JOHN GEIGER via CQ-Contest <
>> cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Isn't the MAR "section" still in play for the SS, with only PE split off
>>> from it?
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>>> 73 John AF5CC
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>>> ---- On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:07:10 -0500 Mike VE9AA ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca <
>>> ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca> wrote ---
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>>>
>>> Some of this is a little tongue-in-cheek or my weak attempt at humour
>>> (it'll hopefully be obvious which parts) so try not to take everything
>>> I've written below as too serious.
>>> For those of you that are humour impaired, please look away....look away
>>> now !
>>>
>>> A little unrelated to contesting, but did any of you ever watch the
>>> Canadian Comedy TV show "Corner Gas" whereby when a neighbouring town
>>> name was mentioned(normally Wullerton), all the residents of Dog River
>>> present would spit (or fake spit) on the ground?
>>> When I hear the acronym "MAR", that's me.  SOME of us guys out East (at
>>> least me in particular) almost "hates" MAR (but hate is way too
>>> strong......) Very much dislikes the "MAR" designation only as it
>>> relates to contesting because I don't live in MAR<spit>, I live in New
>>> Brunswick. (or Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island) etc. and MOST contests
>>> have always permitted us to send the correct Provincial designation. In
>>> the past I didn't always get to play for the home team! (Only SS, ARRL
>>> 160, some Sprints and CQP are the ones that come to mind)
>>> A few years ago the (various) Sprint folks were very kind to us VE9, VE1
>>> and VY2 types and may have been among the first (of the last!) of
>>> contests to let us send NB, NS and PE---so another thank you to those
>>> movers and shakers !
>>> Not long after (actually, Jan 1, 2023), RAC (It's kinda/sorta like the
>>> VE version of the ARRL for those readers abroad) finally got rid of the
>>> MAR designation (which has absolutely NOTHING to do with contests, I
>>> should be careful to mention) and so the last few contests that I am
>>> aware of have all adopted the NB, NS and PE designations for mults
>>> (partially?) based on the RAC and ARRL finally no longer using
>>> it....again MAR as it relates to RAC and ARRL has zero to do with
>>> contesting !
>>> (there is still some housekeeping work to be done @ ARRL fixing up
>>> scores and records, but that's minor)
>>> I believe (but stand to be corrected) that the CQP
>>> <https://www.cqp.org/Rules.html> CQP Rules
>>> which most of us love, was the very last holdout on the World stage to
>>> get rid of it. (they called it MR) <spits on ground> :-)
>>> Thank you to Chris/N6WM and all those folks in California who have
>>> finally permitted us to send NB, NS and PE in your truly great QSO
>>> party.
>>> So anyways......I am rambling a little bit. I guess I don't have
>>> anything left to complain about contesting wise--Geez-what
>>> now?......maybe cut #'s in serial # contests? High K indices?
>>> Perpetually losing the Poison d'Avril test?  or maybe everyone being
>>> zero beat in a big EU pileup on 80m? (1rst World problems from here in
>>> the Northeast?)
>>> I wish to extend my thanks to all of you to have put up with my minor
>>> moaning and groaning over the decades while I worked  (in tandem with
>>> others to be sure) to help supply information and reasoning  to those
>>> last small handful of contests to move us away from using "MAR" <spit>
>>> as a mult.  In the end the situation mostly remedied itself and sponsors
>>> like Sprint and CQP agreed to modify their rules on mults. based on what
>>> RAC and the ARRL and a few others have done.
>>> Now I really AM rambling.
>>> Appreciation all around ! ! !
>>> Mike VE9AA, current president Maritime Contest Club (MCC) (Is it Ironic
>>> our contest club name has that word in it?) haha
>>>
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