[Dxbase] Trouble with the county field

Tue Mar 1 22:45:11 EST 2005

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 <brunius at centurytel.net>
> To: Al Bailey <k8six at comcast.net>; DXbase <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
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