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Re: [CQ-Contest] There goes the Clean Sweep

To: John Geiger <af5cc2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] There goes the Clean Sweep
From: Ron Notarius W3WN via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2020 18:08:18 -0500
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We could always encourage more contest operators to be QRV from those provinces.

73, Ron W3WN

> On Jan 3, 2020, at 2:04 PM, John Geiger <af5cc2@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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@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@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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