[CQ-Contest] CQ WW DX Contests

[Jack Brindle]

The change occurred in the mid 1970s. This is also when additional station licenses went away. W6FB is licensed to me at my address in Louisiana. I am not portable, so there is no reason to sign /5. There is no prohibition against getting a new vanity call outside the district you may be living in. Thus even though you may live in PA, you can get W0AA if that call is available, without any need to add /3...

Every contest I look at my LCRs. For those contests that show how others logged my info incorrectly (like the CQ contests), I almost always find 6 or 7 stations that logged me in CA even though I don’t send that. Worse, in contests that use ARRL sections, folks want to put me in LAX, not LA.   That becomes really funny when they have no propagation to 6-land, but seem to expect that a 6 must be in CA. 

As for Trey, if I hear him sign his call with a zone of 31, I would assume he is visiting KH6TU and not slow him down by asking for his QTH. I have huge respect for George, but I disagree with his statement. Just because someone isn’t where I may expect them to be doesn’t mean they are elsewhere. I don’t want to tick them off and mess up their rate by asking for their QTH or some other repeat unless I really need it. Just log what they send and move on.

As for W6FB, I’ve been here 2 and a half years, and am not moving back to CA. If you hear me, the odds are I am in LA (just copy what I send!). My info is correct (except for Lat/Lon which is about 200 miles off) in the CTY country files - I didn’t even have to ask Jim to add it. He does an outstanding job with administering those files!

73,
Jack, W6FB
Back home in Lake Charles, LA

> On Sep 26, 2023, at 6:25 PM, Barry Jacobson <bdj at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> No clue why the old format W6FB/5 is no longer used. And sometimes I think I hear W5/W6FB, in reverse. I am kind of a Rip Van Winkle because was inactive for a while and things are quite different.
> 
> Barry WA2VIU 
> 
> --
> Barry Jacobson
> WA2VIU
> bdj at alum.mit.edu <mailto:bdj at alum.mit.edu> 
> @bdj_phd
> 
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 5:57 PM Jack Brindle via CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com <mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com>> wrote:
>> I’m in agreement with everyone here, especially Jim. If you work me, and you _do_ log a 3, you will lose the Q. I am now in Louisiana, which is not in zone 3. 
>> Remember, hams tend to move around a lot, and lots of hams are leaving CA. The FCC allows us to keep our calls wherever we go.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Jack, W6FB
>> 
>> > On Sep 25, 2023, at 8:43 PM, jimk8mr--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest at contesting.com <mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > What is an obviously incorrect zone? If I work you in CQWW and you log my "obviously" correct by QRZ.com zone from Ohio, you'll lose the QSO since I'll be in zone 5 in Florida. But you will have lots of company.
>> > I haven't followed it that closely, but I sense that a guy who leaves half a millisecond before sending his TU message will likely have me wrong. The guys who take a second are busy typing in the zone I sent.
>> > Now if G4XYZ sends zone 27, I will correct that to zone 14. 
>> > 
>> > 73  -  Jim   K8MR
>> > 
>> > 
>> >    On Monday, September 25, 2023 at 09:13:51 PM EDT, john <reillyjf at comcast.net <mailto:reillyjf at comcast.net>> wrote:  
>> > 
>> > When you receive an obviously incorrect Zone (like the guy is from CA 
>> > and sends something other than 3), do you log what he sends, or the 
>> > correct Zone? You could be screwed either way, but logging the correct 
>> > Zone seems the lesser of the evils.
>> >   - John, N0TA
>> > 
>> > 
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