[CQ-Contest] Changes to Canadian Sections may have consequences for Four ARRL contests

[Steve Dyer W1SRD]

No doubt done in response to the thousands of stations in YUK and TER.
This would be OK if there was a station actually in TER that gets on 
with any regularity. Is there?
W1SRD

On 7/4/2025 7:06 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU wrote:
> This change was not made for contests.  Of course it was.  Now how do 
> I create Non Metro Colorado section.
>
> W0MU
>
> On 7/3/2025 2:18 PM, John Geiger via CQ-Contest wrote:
>> Clean sweep just became much tougher!
>>
>> 73 John AF5CC
>>
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>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> On 7/3/25 3:14 PM, Dave G. ve3kg at myrac.ca <goodwindave.73 at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>   Hello all:
>>>     Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) has just announced the creation 
>>> of a new
>>>   section in our field organisation.  The new section is Yukon 
>>> (YUK).  This
>>>   is a division of the old Territories (TER) section.  Radio 
>>> Amateurs in the
>>>   Yukon Territory are now located in the YUK section, while Radio 
>>> Amateurs in
>>>   the Northwest Territories and Nunavut continue to be located in the
>>>   Territories (TER) section.
>>>     This change took effect on 1 July 2025.  The change was made at 
>>> the request
>>>   of Radio Amateurs in Yukon who volunteered to organise a distinct 
>>> section
>>>   for that territory.  It was announced in RAC's journal, The Canadian
>>>   Amateur (TCA), for July/August 2025.
>>>     The change was not made for the purposes of contests, but there are
>>>   consequences for four ARRL operating events:
>>>   - ARRL Field Day
>>>   - ARRL Sweepstakes CW
>>>   - ARRL Sweepstakes SSB
>>>   - ARRL 160 metre Contest
>>>     ARRL have been informed.  ARRL may choose to modify the rules 
>>> and publicity
>>>   for those four events.
>>>     This change will have no impact on any other ARRL contest, any 
>>> RAC contest,
>>>   or any other major contest.  There are several US QSO parties that 
>>> use
>>>   Canadian sections for multipliers.  The organisers of those QSO 
>>> parties may
>>>   also choose to modify their rules and publicity.
>>>     Authors of contest logging software should watch for an 
>>> announcement from
>>>   ARRL about whether there will be changes to those four ARRL events.
>>>     This increases the number of sections in RAC's field 
>>> organisation from
>>>   fourteen (14)  to fifteen (15):
>>>     Alberta (AB)
>>>   British Columbia (BC)
>>>   Golden Horseshoe (GH)
>>>   Manitoba (MB)
>>>   New Brunswick (NB)
>>>   Newfoundland and Labrador (NL)
>>>   Nova Scotia (NS)
>>>   Ontario East (ONE)
>>>   Ontario North (ONN)
>>>   Ontario South (ONS)
>>>   Prince Edward Island (PE)
>>>   Québec (QC)
>>>   Saskatchewan (SK)
>>>   Territories (TER)
>>>   *Yukon (YUK)* - NOTE: this addition is the only change.
>>>     73,
>>>     Dave Goodwin VE3KG
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