[PBARC] ARRL Sections - For those contesting this weekend.
E. Glenn Wolf, Jr.
[email protected]
Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:39:37 -0600
The author of this form is Dan Henderson, N1ND
[email protected]
Update: Sept 26 03
ARRL / RAC SECTION ABBREVIATIONS
+-----------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+
| 1 | | 6 |
+-----------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+
| Connecticut CT | | East Bay EB |
| Eastern Massachusetts EMA | | Los Angeles LAX |
| Maine ME | | Orange ORG |
| New Hampshire NH | | Santa Barbara SB |
| Rhode Island RI | | Santa Clara Valley SCV |
| Vermont VT | | San Diego SDG |
| Western Massachusetts WMA | | San Francisco SF |
+-----------------------------------+ | San Joaquin Valley SJV |
| 2 | | Sacramento Valley SV |
+-----------------------------------+ | Pacific PAC |
| Eastern New York ENY | +-----------------------------------+
| New York City-Long Island NLI | | 7 |
| Northern New Jersey NNJ | +-----------------------------------+
| Northern New York NNY | | Arizona AZ |
| Southern New Jersey SNJ | | Eastern Washington EWA |
| Western New York WNY | | Idaho ID |
+-----------------------------------+ | Montana MT |
| 3 | | Nevada NV |
+-----------------------------------+ | Oregon OR |
| Delaware DE | | Utah UT |
| Eastern Pennsylvania EPA | | Western Washington WWA |
| Maryland-DC MDC | | Wyoming WY |
| Western Pennsylvania WPA | | Alaska AK |
+-----------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+
| 4 | | 8 |
+-----------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+
| Alabama AL | | Michigan MI |
| Georgia GA | | Ohio OH |
| Kentucky KY | | West Virginia WV |
| North Carolina NC | +-----------------------------------+
| Northern Florida NFL | | 9 |
| South Carolina SC | +-----------------------------------+
| Southern Florida SFL | | Illinois IL |
| West Central Florida WCF | | Indiana IN |
| Tennessee TN | | Wisconsin WI |
| Virginia VA | | |
| Puerto Rico PR | +-----------------------------------+
| Virgin Islands VI | | 0 |
+-----------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+
| 5 | | Colorado CO |
+-----------------------------------+ | Iowa IA |
| Arkansas AR | | Kansas KS |
| Louisiana LA | | Minnesota MN |
| Mississippi MS | | Missouri MO |
| New Mexico NM | | Nebraska NE |
| North Texas NTX | | North Dakota ND |
| Oklahoma OK | | South Dakota SD |
| South Texas STX | | |
| West Texas WTX | | |
+-----------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+
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| CANADA |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Maritime MAR | Saskatchewan SK |
| Newfoundland/Labrador NL | Alberta AB |
| Quebec QC | British Columbia BC |
| Ontario ON | Northern Territories NT |
| Manitoba MB | (Includes the Northwest, Yukon and |
| Nunavut territories) |
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ARRL announces contest rule changes: The ARRL Contest Branch has announced
rule changes governing ARRL-sponsored operating events. The changes become
effective November 1, 2003. (1) In any contest that requires off-time, any
claimed off-time period must be at least 30 minutes long. "Remember that
listening time counts as operating time when calculating off-time," said
ARRL Contest Branch Manager Dan Henderson, N1ND. (2) The Northwest
Territories (NWT) multiplier has been renamed "Northern Territories" (NT)
for contests that use the ARRL and Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) section
as part of the exchange. "While not an official RAC section, the territories
of VE8, VY1 and VY0 (Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut) are grouped
together as a multiplier in the ARRL November Sweepstakes and the ARRL
160-Meter Contest," Henderson explained. "The new name and abbreviation will
more accurately describe their makeup." Henderson said use of the NWT
abbreviation was inconsistent to designate a multiplier that also included
Yukon and Nunavut. Awards for ARRL-sponsored contests will continue to be
issued to the VE8, VY1 and VY0 together as the Northern Territories section.
(3) In contests using geopolitical entities as multipliers--the ARRL RTTY
Roundup, the ARRL International DX Contest and the ARRL 10-Meter Contest--
the official abbreviation for Northwest Territories is NWT. "This change
brings the multipliers for those events into a consistent form," Henderson
said. ARRL encourages contest participants to update the necessary files
for their logging software.