Barry, the term is known, but that's not the reason to discriminate HAMs
who happen to live there (myself included).
Having Ontario North, South and East - why not add Ontario West or
Ontario Centre? It would look pretty logical to a lot of people (again,
myself included).
There was no any valid explanation for calling it GH, except that "RAC
Emergency communication people needed it".
Our own Radio Amateurs of Canada seems to have its decision written in
stone.
We had this discussion on out CCO reflector where RAC officials were
offered to operate in a couple of Contests (especially Field Day!) and
use GH as an exchange, but it seems that contest community does not
exist for RAC.
Sorry for raising this issue, but Mike's message brought it to my mind.
We just had our section called "GTA" for a few years before renaming it
to "GH", so there's hope we'll have it finally changed, as it happened
with MAR.
73, Yuri VE3DZ
On 9/28/2023 7:06 PM, Barry Jacobson wrote:
Yes, I asked a non-ham cousin from Toronto if they knew what the term meant
and they never heard of it.
Barry WA2VIU
--
Barry Jacobson
WA2VIU
bdj@alum.mit.edu
@bdj_phd
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023, 6:30 PM Yuri <ve3dz@rigexpert.net> wrote:
>>>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@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@contesting.com> wrote:
Isn't the MAR "section" still in play for the SS, with only PE split
off
from it?
73 John AF5CC
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---- On Wed, 27 Sep 2023 13:07:10 -0500 Mike VE9AA ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca <
ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote ---
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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