You may be partially right, but we have 35 members in the Maritime Contest Club and another 4 or 5 active or semi active stations that contest, that are NOT part of the club. Granted , not everyone is on for every contest, but as I said before, for any of the popular contests, we are much more prevalent than some sections or States in the USA. I would say on average and as an example we have 10 ACTIVE members for the CQWW contests. Try finding 10 Rhode Island, Delaware , Montana or East Bay stations on !
Mike VE9AA Mike, Coreen & Corey Smith 699 Rte 616 Keswick Ridge NB Canada E6L 1T1 ----- Original Message ----- From: ZR To: Mike & Coreen Smith ; Topband Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 12:52 PM Subject: Re: Topband: My take on ARRL 160 (MAR) Low ham population and a small geographical area Mike. You, or anyone else aint gonna change the ARRL for any reason...its a dictatorship. Carl KM1H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike & Coreen Smith" <ve...@nbnet.nb.ca> To: "Topband" <Topband@contesting.com> Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 10:49 AM Subject: Re: Topband: My take on ARRL 160 (MAR) > In a slightly different vein (but keeping with the same theme overall > theme)..... > > "MAR" section includes NB (VE9), NS (VE1) and VY2 (PEI).....sometimes MAR > even included VO1 and VO2 !!! > > We have to compete against hams in three provinces for most ARRL contests. > Does RI get lumped in with EMA and CT? - Nope! > Does Montana get lumped in with Wyoming and Kansas? - Nope! > > Why is it the ARRL sees it fit to make three provinces compete against one > another? > Tell me what other 48 contiguous states compete against one another? > > Maybe 50 years ago there was little to no activity in, what was then, > always > VE1, but for most any semi-major or major contest that happens, you will > work 5-10 MAR stations with VE1, 9 and VY2 prefixes. We've had separate > prefixes here since the early 1990's.......approaching 20 yrs !!! > > I would rather compete against my province-mates. > > Mike VE9AA (NB and proud of it !) > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2102/4056 - Release Date: 12/04/11 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.454 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/4053 - Release Date: 12/02/11 19:41:00 _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK