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To: Mike Fatchett W0MU <w0mu@w0mu.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Changes to Canadian Sections may have consequences for Four ARRL contests
From: Kelly Taylor via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Kelly Taylor <ve4xt@me.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 09:28:21 -0500
List-post: <mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
Actually, the amateurs who go through the process of creating new sections — 
appointing section managers, ARES co-ordinators, deputy SMs, and so on, don’t 
really care enough about contests to go through all that work simply to create 
a new multiplier.

If it was simply a matter of saying “We’re a new section!” perhaps.

Although, perhaps you’re just being facetious. Which I appreciate! 

73, kelly, ve4xt 

> On Jul 4, 2025, at 9:06 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU <w0mu@w0mu.com> 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
>> 
>> Sent from Proton Mail Android
>> 
>> 
>> -------- 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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