Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:31 AM, David Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I have just one zone anomaly left to resolve. >> >> RN8S >> >> I logged him as Z 16 >> DX4Win advised Z 17 >> Clublog advises Z 16 >> > > I am torn on these. > > A few years ago, they all gave out Zone 17. I think this was because > Zone 17 is Asia, while Zone 16 is Europe, and in CQWW, contacts with a > different continent count MORE than contacts with the same continent, > so you could earn more points working Europe by saying that you are in > Zone 17 (Asia). > > Then the CQWW committee stepped in and said they would count UA9S/T/W > as Zone 16, regardless of what the operator actually sent. So the > contest country files defaulted to Zone 16, and if you didn't listen > and just hit ENTER, that's what you'd get (regarless of what the > operator sent, and what you should have copied). > > That was several years ago, and since I have never worked many > stations in that oblast, I don't know what they send nowadays. > > I'm inclined to just leave DX4WIN alone. I'm sure you and others can > live with this one zone mismatch. It's not like you haven't worked a > lot of zone 16/17 stations already, right? > > 73 - Jim AD1C > > Hi JIm....
To make it even more confusing the IARU, sponsor of the WAC award, says Russian callsign numbers 4 and 6 are in Europe. This substantiates the Russian callsign system where numbers 1 thru 7 are Europe and 8 thru 0 are for Asia. It's obvious that the Russians consider UA9S and UA9W to be in Asia and SHOULD be zone 17. However, as I was told by CQ, it's their system and they can draw the zone boundaries wherever they want! 73, Roger ______________________________________________________________ Dx4win mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
