[Dx4win] Re: Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN files (Alan Zack)

[Gregory Brown]

Great point, and one that needs repeating!  The QRZ grid info is
automatically generated from, apparently, your stations's zip code (or
town name?).  In most cases, there are several "small grids" within
each, so there is a good chance that the grid reported in QRZ is wrong
unless people have calculated it themselves and changed the info.  I
imagine that there are many people out there that are reporting their
own grids (over the air) that they just grabbed from QRZ.COM without
confirming them, so you can't even be sure if what they send is correct!

Since QRZ.COM is now the defacto reference for such things, everyone
should make it a point to go there and update their info.  Personally, I
think that the grid square info on QRZ should default to blank and only
report a grid square if we add it manually.  If you can't depend on the
accuracy of the data, why have it there at all??

Sorry, that's the scientist in me talking!

Greg KT0K

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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:03:14 -0800
From: Alan Zack <k7acz at cox.net>
Subject: Re: [Dx4win] Programatically inserting County into DX4WIN
	files
To: Lee Hallin <hallinl at lanecc.edu>
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DX4WIN does this automatically for me using data from QRZ.com.
When I log a USA station  DX4WIN automatically goes to QRZ.com and looks

up the station info for me and places it in the F3 Window.
For example, on Veterans Day I worked some special events stations 
including K0AIR.  As soon as I typed K0AIR into the Callsign window the 
following info appeared in my F3 window:

K0AIR
Strategic Air Command Memorial ARC
Paul W Schleck
P.O.Box 1292
Bellevue, NE 68005
Coord: 95.908W 41.149N Grid: EN21bd
County = Sarpy
USA

If I am pleased with this info I press the UPDATE QSO button in the F3 
window and this info is logged.  The only time I have discovered a 
problem is in the CQP where people leave their home QTH and activate a 
county other than their home county.

As noted, there is no guarantee that the QRZ.COM info is 100 percent 
correct as to county and grid info.  As for myself, I did change my grid

from the one assigned to my PO Box QRZ.COM address to the actual grid 
down the road from my PO Box to my actual street address.