Here's a list of all ARRL sections, along with their proper abbreviations, used in our contests. You use these abbreviations in the lines of QSO data for contests that require a section as part of the exchange (Sweepstakes and 160 Meter Contest).
You also use these abbreviations in your Cabrillo log header for your LOCATION: or ARRL-SECTION: tag in all ARRL contests.
A printable version of this list is available here.
| W1 | W6 | Canada | |||||
| Connecticut | CT | East Bay | EB | Maritime | MAR | ||
| Eastern Massachusetts | EMA | Los Angeles | LAX | Newfoundland/Labrador | NL | ||
| Maine | ME | Orange | ORG | Quebec | QC | ||
| New Hampshire | NH | Santa Barbara | SB | Ontario | ON | ||
| Rhode Island | RI | Santa Clara Valley | SCV | Manitoba | MB | ||
| Vermont | VT | San Diego | SDG | Saskatchewan | SK | ||
| Western Massachusetts | WMA | San Francisco | SF | Alberta | AB | ||
| San Joaquin Valley | SJV | British Columbia | BC | ||||
| W2 | Sacramento Valley | SV | Northern Territories | NT | |||
| Eastern New York | ENY | Pacific | PAC | (Includes the Northwest, | |||
| New York City - Long Island | NLI | Yukon and Nunavut territories) | |||||
| Northern New Jersey | NNJ | W7 | |||||
| Southern New Jersey | SNJ | Arizona | AZ | Mexican States | |||
| Western New York | WNY | Eastern Washington | EWA | Used ONLY for the | |||
| Idaho | ID | ARRL 10 Meter Contest | |||||
| W3 | Montana | MT | Aguascalientes | AGS | |||
| Delaware | DE | Nevada | NV | Baja California | BAC | ||
| Eastern Pennsylvania | EPA | Oregon | OR | Baja California Sur | BCS | ||
| Maryland - DC | MDC | Utah | UT | Campeche | CAM | ||
| Western Pennsylvania | WPA | Western Washington | WWA | Chiapas | CHI | ||
| Wyoming | WY | Chihuahua | CHH | ||||
| W4 | Alaska | AK | Coahuila | COA | |||
| Alabama | AL | Colima | COL | ||||
| Georgia | GA | W8 | Distrito Federal | DFE | |||
| Kentucky | KY | Michigan | MI | Durango | DGO | ||
| North Carolina | NC | Ohio | OH | Estado de Mexico | EMX | ||
| Northern Florida | NFL | West Virginia | WV | Guanajuato | GTO | ||
| South Carolina | SC | Guerrero | GRO | ||||
| Southern Florida | SFL | W9 | Hidalgo | HGO | |||
| West Central Florida | WCF | Illinois | IL | Jalisco | JAL | ||
| Tennessee | VA | Indiana | IN | Michoacan | MIC | ||
| Virginia | VA | Wisconsin | WI | Morelos | MOR | ||
| Puerto Rico | PR | Nayarit | NAY | ||||
| Virgin Islands | VI | W0 | Nuevo Leon | NLE | |||
| Colorado | CO | Oaxaca | OAX | ||||
| W5 | Iowa | IA | Puebla | PUE | |||
| Arkansas | AR | Kansas | KS | Queretaro | QRO | ||
| Louisiana | LA | Minnesota | MN | Quintana Roo | QUI | ||
| Mississippi | MS | Missouri | MO | San Luis Potosi | SLP | ||
| New Mexico | NM | Nebraska | NE | Sinaloa | SIN | ||
| North Texas | NTX | North Dakota | ND | Sonroa | SON | ||
| Oklahoma | OK | South Dakota | SD | Tabasco | TAB | ||
| South Texas | STX | Tamaulipas | TAM | ||||
| West Texas | WTX | Tlaxcala | TLX | ||||
| Veracruz | VER | ||||||
| Yucatan | YUC | ||||||
| Zacatecas | ZAC | ||||||
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