[CQ-Contest] CQ Zone trivia

[Bob Shohet, KQ2M]

Unless I have misunderstood something, China is in zone 24, but a small part of China is also in Zone 23.   I have heard several UA0Y hams (and several DXpeditions) on from zone 23, the most active of whom has been UA0YAY.  I am not aware of any part of India being in Zone 23.

73

Bob  KQ2M


From: N4ZR 
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:44 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com 
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ Zone trivia

According to the CTY.DAT file, which is as close to a universal arbiter 
as you'll get, probably, none of India is in CQ Zone 23, and China is 
all zone 23.  The situation with ITU zones is more complicated.

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On 11/18/2019 2:00 PM, wigi at kl0r.com wrote:
> I seem to remember that there is a quirk in how the CQ zones are drawn, and that there's some very small part of China that is in Zone 22, or some very small part of India that is in Zone 23. Am I correct? Or has this been changed?
>
> I was interested enough to go looking at this, and depending on the map you use, it looks like some very northern part of India is in Zone 23 (but that isn't how I remembered it). If you look at the CQ WAZ list, it clearly states that is not the case - China is not listed as part of Zone 22, and India is not listed as part of Zone 23. But some maps show that.
>
> I then referred to the arbiter of all knowledge, Google... and when you click on the map in the area of interest, it says "unavailable".
>
> I suspect that since even Google doesn't know what is there, that we're talking about some uber-remote part of the Himalayas that is uninhabited... and so for a contest, who cares? But I am a bit of a map geek, so I kinda care.
>
> Any info on that?
>
> Thanks!
>
> 73, Wigi
> KL0R
>
>
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