[Dx4win] County question - More

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

At 11:58 AM 4/1/2005, Ken Kopp - KOPP wrote:

>There are a number of counties in the US whose names appear
>in more than one state, and these "repeats" are handled OK in
>DX4WIN.  Wouldn't it be just as easy to include a county named
>"Independent City" in the DX4WIN county list for states that have
>these entities?  This would enable us to take care of the mater at
>the time of entry of the QSO and therefore an empty county field
>would be the only ones waiting for the county to be determined.

I can't speak for Paul, but I don't like this for two reasons:

1.  Now there will be more than 3077 entries in the county file.  How 
will you know when you're done?
2.  Independent cities do indeed count for the county they are 
in/adjacent to. By doing this, you are treating them like they do not 
count at all.

I think DX4WIN is fine the way it is.  It is up to the operator to 
have the proper documentation in-hand to associate independent cities 
with counties.  The USACA record book probably has this.  N4UJK's 
county maps also have the list on the inside cover. An active county 
hunter should probably have one of these anyway.

73 - Jim AD1C


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