[Dxbase] County Error - Valdez Cordova

Mon Dec 12 17:12:10 EST 2005

Eric,
This has stumped folks before. The short answer is there are NO counties in
Alaska. SOME, but not all, areas of Alaska are organized as Boroughs. The
problem is in sparsely settled areas of the bush the locals, who largely
live on subsistence, don't want a Borough form of government because they
have the power to levy taxes. Taxes have to be paid in cash, not fish or
beaver pelts - soooo no local government, no local taxes!
This gives county hunters a problem because of the resulting area gaps in
governmental units throughout bush Alaska. The solution is to use the
geographical boundaries of the four Alaska State Court Judicial Districts.
The Judicial Districts, 1st through 4th, are referred to by geographic area
within the state - Central, North-West, South-Central, and South-East. I
live in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough which is in the Third Judicial
District and is referred to as South-Central Alaska. Les, KL7J, has a nice
web page at www.qsl.net/kl7j/county.htm that describes the various areas and
the Boroughs within each one. Scroll down to the bottom and he has a nice
color map showing the Judicial District boundaries and the existing Borough
boundaries.
DXbase uses the geographic regions of Alaska in the county drop down list.
However, if like me, you use a Callbook CD ROM lookup, DXbase populates the
county field with info from the Callbook data base. I just entered my call
in the log and it fills in the County field with "MATANUSKA-SUSITNA". When
I enter KL7J the County field is populated with "KENAI PENINSULA". "VALDEZ
CORDOVA" is also a Borough name. The Borough names are NOT listed as any of
the predefined County areas within DXbase. I suspect LOTW is looking for
the geographic area term for County rather than the Borough name. This
means all your AK contacts will have to have the County entry modified if
you used a Callbook CD ROM to populate this filed.
Hope this helps. Now to go check my log for AK entries!
Gary AL9A
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric - VE3GSI" <ve3gsi at sympatico.ca>
To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: December 12, 2005 4:37 AM
Subject: [Dxbase] County Error - Valdez Cordova
> Hello U.S. County Experts,
>> I just upload my LoTW info and received a County error for Valdez Cordova
in
> Alaska. In the DXB County dropdown list the only counties showing seem to
be
> areas. When I check on the internet, to the uninitiated there does seem to
> be counties in Alaska, so I guess the short question is; what gives?
>> 73 Eric - VE3GSI
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