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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Changes to Canadian Sections may have consequences for Four ARRL contests
From: John Geiger via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Reply-to: John Geiger <wr6885@proton.me>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:18:52 +0000
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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@myrac.ca <goodwindave.73@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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