[Dxbase] Zone Check Program by Joe WA6AXE

Thu Feb 12 15:27:40 EST 2009

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
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[mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Joe Glockner
Sent: Thursday, 12 February, 2009 19:18
To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
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

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