Can someone please explain to me how Antarctica is treated by DXBase? For example, I worked R1ANF on King George Is. in the South Shetlands (VP8S). It is logged by DXB as CQ Zone 13 (correct), ITU Zone 73 (correct), but classified as prefix KC-Antarctica. I have also worked D88S on King George I., which shows as HL because it is a Korean base with a Korean license/callsign. Then there is R1ANC. I tried getting Bill NC1L, Mr. DXCC, to explain the treatment to me, but after two emails I am still confused. DXCC shows Antarctica and So. Shetlands as two separate entities. It seems that anything below 60deg south latitude is considered by DXCC as Antarctica, which has no licensing authority itself. My question is: does R1ANF (for example) count as BOTH So. Shetlands AND Antarctica for DXCC? That hardly seems likely. And if that station is nominally on King George I. in the So. Shetlands, why does DXBase not show it as VP8 instead of KC?
George W1EBI
