[CQ-Contest] New ITU Zone Maps for IARU HF Championships

[Richard F. DiDonna NN3W]

Or deal with hams who give you CQ zone exchanges.  I got a lot of zone 
5s and a few Zone 14s.

73 Rich NN3W

On 7/15/2019 9:32 AM, Mark - N5OT wrote:
> And we think the guys who write the logging programs have it tough.  Ha.
>
> Contesting has come a long way, but the fact remains we are still 
> supposed to log what we hear and not what any device is suggesting 
> might be the correct information.  They're tools not surrogates, and 
> they can put you at the mercy of mistakes made by other 
> organizations.  I don't think anybody ever got points off for writing 
> down what the other guy sent.
>
> Excellent work as always, Tim.  Thank you for these great maps!
>
> 73 - Mark N5OT
>
>
> On 7/14/2019 11:36 AM, Tim Makins wrote:
>> Hi Joe, yes you are correct - I had made those new maps to the RSGB 
>> Zone definitions, not the ARRL ones on the 
>> http://www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship. I have changed them on my 
>> site now.
>>
>> By the way, there is even a slight error on those ARRL definitions, 
>> as there is a small piece of Minnesota that lies to the East of 90W !
>>
>> 07          W-K-N-A   U.S.A. (N. Dakota, S. Dakota,
>>                       Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado,
>>                       New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma,
>>                       Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, that
>>                       part of Utah & Arizona East
>>                       of 110 Deg. W., & that part
>>                       of Michigan, part of Montana
>>                       Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas,
>>                       Tennessee, Mississippi,
>>                       Louisiana & Wisconsin west
>>                       of 90 Deg. W.)
>>
>> 08          W-K-N-A   U.S.A. (Indiana, Alabama,
>>                       Georgia, Florida, Virginia,
>>                       Kentucky, N. Carolina, S.
>>                       Carolina, West Virginia,
>>                       Maryland, Delaware, Ohio,
>>                       Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New
>>                       York, Maine, Connecticut,
>>                       Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
>>                       New Hampshire, Vermont, &
>>                       that part of Michigan, Illinois,
>>                       Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi,
>>                       Tennessee, Louisiana &
>>                       Wisconsin east of 90 Deg. W.)
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Portage_(community),_Minnesota
>>
>> 73s Tim EI8IC
>>
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