[ct-user] FWD: ARLX016 New section ups the ante on SS clean sweep

[Jim Reisert]

Looks like another update to the .DAT files is in order.  I'll try to get
it done before the end of the month.  Look for an update on this reflector.

- Jim AD1C

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>ARLX016 New section ups the ante on SS clean sweep
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>ZCZC AX16
>QST de W1AW
>Special Bulletin 16  ARLX016
>From ARRL Headquarters
>Newington CT  June 13, 1997
>To all radio amateurs
>
>SB SPCL ARL ARLX016
>ARLX016 New section ups the ante on SS clean sweep
>
>Keep an ear out for VO1 and VO2 call signs during this fall's ARRL
>Sweepstakes. Canada's new Newfoundland-Labrador (NL) Section will be
>among those that SS participants will have to snag this November on
>their way to that coveted Clean Sweep Award. The ARRL received formal
>notification of the change last week from Radio Amateurs of Canada
>President J. Farrell ''Hoppy'' Hopwood, VE7RD, although the addition of
>the NL section actually was approved last year. Some NL hams gave NL
>as their section in last fall's SS, although the change had not yet
>been incorporated into the list of SS sections. Joe Craig, VO1NA, of
>Torbay, Newfoundland, is the Section Manager in NL. RAC Vice
>President and General Counsel Tim Ellam, VE6SH, said the new section
>was created ''primarily as it was hard to service VO1/2 from the MAR
>(Maritimes) section due to geography.''
>
>The addition of a new section could prove to be a significant
>challenge for those hoping to work all ARRL and RAC sections, plus
>VE8/VY1 (a total of 79 multipliers) in the popular fall event. Some
>Canadian sections already are among the more difficult ones to find
>and work. (A heads up: Ellam says RAC has also explored the
>possibility of creating additional new sections north of the border,
>but no decisions have been reached yet.) The change also means that
>those who use computerized logging programs will have to add the new
>section to their program's list of SS sections--just as they had to
>do last fall with the addition of the Northern New York section.
>
>This year's ARRL Sweepstakes weekends are November 1-2 (CW) and
>November 15-16 (SSB).
>NNNN
>/EX

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Jim Reisert <AD1C@tiac.net>               http://www.tiac.net/users/ad1c/



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