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

[Jeff Clarke]

Wonder if the contest sponsors could modify their log checking program 
to calculate your grid square? That should probably tell them what ITU 
zone you and the stations you work are in. On SSB you work lots of 
people who aren't really doing the contest and don't know their ITU zone.

Since taking over the Georgia QSO Party a few years ago I can totally 
relate to what the contest adjudicators go thru. Even though I have it 
spelled out in plain English on our web page on what should be submitted 
I still get all kinds of garbage log submissions. Then there are those 
who send you emails a month after the contest wondering when the results 
are going to be out! We had over 400 entries this year and I have no one 
that helps me check the logs. I wrote a MS Windows program to help me 
check them but it's far from perfect. My job title isn't a full time log 
checker and the results will be out when I get the time to do the logs. 
Although they will always be out before the next years running of the 
QSO Party. I do have a life outside ham radio.

For all those volunteers who have given their time to write log checking 
programs and check logs (especially the big contests sponsored by 
ARRL/CQ) a BIG THANK YOU for all you do.

Jeff KU8E


On 7/15/2019 09:32 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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