The way things are going up here you can expect every province with an English
name to be renamed with an "indigenous" one so a bunch of abbreviations will
have to be changed.
The ARRL may want to consider changing the Canadian multipliers from RAC
sections to provinces and territories else this will go on forever.
73,Julio VE3FH
On Friday, July 4, 2025 at 10:17:48 a.m. EDT, 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
>
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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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