FW: [PaQSO] I am confused relative to VE Multipliers

Sun, 26 Jan 2003 16:04:52 -0500

Folks - sorry, the hyper link in reference one should be:

http://www.nittany-arc.org/parules.html

73 Bud AA3B

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Subject: [PaQSO] I am confused relative to VE Multipliers

Hi Chuck,

Can you help me resolve my confusion relative to Canadian multipliers.  The
contest rules (reference 1) indicate that there are 152 multipliers.  I
believe this breaks down as follows:

 67 Counties
 71 ARRL sections
 13 RAC sections (this is the confusing part)
  1 DX

152 Total

The rules say RAC sections, but there are only 8 sections defined by RAC
(refrence 2).  I therefore believe that the 13 multipliers are really meant
to be the 10 provinces and 3 territories that represent administrative
divisions within Canada.

According to the CIA World Fact Book (reference 3), the 13 admininstrative
divisions in Canada are as follows: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New
Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories*, Nova Scotia,
Nunavut*, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon
Territory.  (The * indicates a territory.)

I was surprised by this, as I had assumed for many years that Newfoundland
and Labrador were separate mults, and that Nunavut was not a multiplier.  I
now believe that this was a bad assumption based on the rules.

Can you confirm or correct my intepretation?

tnx and 73

Bud AA3B

References:

1.	http://www.nittany-arc.org/parules.htm

2.	http://www.rac.ca/racares.htm

3.	http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ca.html#Geo

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