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Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ Zone trivia

To: N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ Zone trivia
From: John Dorr <cqk1ar@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:37:34 -0500
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Nope. China is located in Zone 23 (BY9) and Zone 24 (all other).

73, John, K1AR


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> On Nov 18, 2019, at 5:48 PM, N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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>> On 11/18/2019 2:00 PM, wigi@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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