Re: [CQ-Contest] Changes to Canadian Sections may have consequences for Four ARRL contests

[Steve Dyer W1SRD via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>]

No doubt done in response to the thousands of stations in YUK and TER.
This would be OK if there was a station actually in TER that gets on 
with any regularity. Is there?
W1SRD

On 7/4/2025 7:06 AM, Mike Fatchett W0MU 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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