[CQ-Contest] Boundaries Between ITU Zones 6/7/8

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:22:48PM +0100, Cooper, Stewart wrote:
> Nat said...
> >Sure, W6 is clearly zone 6 and Florida is clearly zone 8
> 
> Interesting. How would you know he was in Florida?
> I would log what you get sent. 

A lot of ops do not know what their ITU zone is.  But if you ask them,
they will always know what state they are in.  Many might even know their 
grid square or their lat/lon.  If this can all be gone through during the 
QSO, then it's worthwhile to do so, get the exchange correct, and send 
the caller off with the new knowledge of what their ITU zone is so that
they can work other stations in the contest, too.
 
> Stewart
> GM4AFF (GB5HQ 40m SSB in IARU)
> PLEASE WORK GB5HQ ON ALL BANDS/MODES THIS WEEKEND!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nat Heatwole [mailto:nat at ajheatwole.com]
> Sent: 06 July 2004 04:22
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Boundaries Between ITU Zones 6/7/8
> 
> 
> For the first time in years, I will be doing a full effort in this
> weekend's coming IARU contest and for the first time ever, I will be
> doing it from a simi-competative station. One thing that I've always
> wondered about IARU is how one is to tell whether a U.S. station is in
> ITU zone 6, 7, or 8. Sure, W6 is clearly zone 6 and Florida is clearly
> zone 8, but where exactly are the boundaries between the zones? From the
> map that I have, the boundaries are for the most part vertical. In that
> case, are they scaled to the Maidenhand grid squares? And if so, which
> grids are in each zone?
> 
> This may seem a moot point, with U.S. to U.S. QSOs worth less than
> inter-continental QSOs, but if the bands are trash, that might be all I
> can muster, and it would really suck loosing multiple QSOs for something
> simple like logging a station as zone 7 when they are actually zone 8
> (even if they sent me the incorrect zone). Any ideas?
> 
> 73!
> Nat - WZ3AR
> 
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