The county hunters told me when I lived in the city of Lynchburg that I could use any county that touched the city. This gave me the option of several or what the person on the other end needed. I used Cambell county most of the time since it was only 100 yards away.
> [Original Message] > From: Bob Brunius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Al Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; DXbase <[email protected]> > Date: 3/1/2005 2:58:03 PM > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Trouble with the county field > > Yah, I guess HAMs in the "Independent Cities" in VA are not considered > to be in counties. That is odd because the VA WEB description you sent > me says that those cities have all of the courts and offices of a county > government and I am surprised that the county hunters group doesn't > therefore count them as counties. I just seems like if a HAM is in the > US there should be some corresponding county entity to put in my data base. > > Thanks for the help Al. > > Bob > > > > Al Bailey wrote: > > > I don't see that county ? Here is a URL to look at. > > > > http://www.pettitcompany.com/html/va_cities_and_counties.html > > > > Here is County Hunters site to look at too. > > > > http://www.countyhunter.com/counties.htm > > > > > > > > At 11:37 AM 3/1/2005, Bob Brunius wrote: > > > >> I am trying to log a QSO with K4YFR who lives in the county of > >> VIRGINIA BEACH CITY, VA. I have verified that county from a number of > >> sources. Unfortunately it is not in the DXbase list of counties. That > >> is no problem I thought, I'll just enter it manually in the field. > >> NO, it won't let me. OK so I entered Virginia Beach City in the > >> Counties data base. Still no go. I can't even manually enter the > >> correct county. What can I do? > >> > >> Bob > >> AC7PN > >> > >> > >> > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> Dxbase mailing list > >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > >> Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected]
