There are even more mistakes with ITU Zones in DXBase before 2003. Not only US Zones 8 and 7 are shown as Zone 6. Also in UA and UA9 a lot of mistakes with Zone 29 shown as Z 19, Zone 30 shown as Z 20 etc.
73 Sergei UX1UA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Glockner Sent: Thursday, 12 February, 2009 19:18 To: [email protected] Subject: [Dxbase] Zone Check Program by Joe WA6AXE Sorry everyone!! I have just found out that the boundaries for ITU Zones is different than I had found in the past -- with info just received and looked at .. It is NOT going to be possible to write and EXE program that would check the USA (W0 - W9) CQ and ITU Zones .. The CQ Zones are fairly well "straight-forward" and programmable; but, the ITU Zones are nearly based on "coordinates" as the boundaries. With this in mind, the VERY BEST that could be programmed to the STATE-level is: Give the ITU Zone number that encompasses the "majority" of the State. If the DXbase user doesn't chase the ITU ZONEs, then there is nothing lost. Only those users who truely are into the ITU Zone Award could be affected. My program would have only been able to check the accuracy of the K-prefix ENTITY QSOs that listed a STATE in the logbook. So, there is a possibility that the percentage of any mistakes "will" be very small. In my own logbook, after running my "trial-version" of my EXE program (that I was working on) -- I only had 36 Errors!! And, they were all ITU Zones.. Sorry guys!!! 73 Joe wa6axe _________________________________________________________________ Windows LiveT: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_howitworks_ 022009 ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase 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 ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase 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
