[Dx4win] Zone anomaly

[Roger D Johnson]

Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:31 AM, David Gould <dave at g3ueg.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have just one zone anomaly left to resolve.
>>
>> RN8S
>>
>> I logged him as Z 16
>> DX4Win advised Z 17
>> Clublog advises Z 16
>>     
>
> I am torn on these.
>
> A few years ago, they all gave out Zone 17.  I think this was because
> Zone 17 is Asia, while Zone 16 is Europe, and in CQWW, contacts with a
> different continent count MORE than contacts with the same continent,
> so you could earn more points working Europe by saying that you are in
> Zone 17 (Asia).
>
> Then the CQWW committee stepped in and said they would count UA9S/T/W
> as Zone 16, regardless of what the operator actually sent.  So the
> contest country files defaulted to Zone 16, and if you didn't listen
> and just hit ENTER, that's what you'd get (regarless of what the
> operator sent, and what you should have copied).
>
> That was several years ago, and since I have never worked many
> stations in that oblast, I don't know what they send nowadays.
>
> I'm inclined to just leave DX4WIN alone.  I'm sure you and others can
> live with this one zone mismatch. It's not like  you haven't worked a
> lot of zone 16/17 stations already, right?
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
>   
Hi JIm....

To make it even more confusing the IARU, sponsor of the WAC award, says 
Russian callsign
numbers 4 and 6 are in Europe. This substantiates the Russian callsign 
system where numbers
1 thru 7 are Europe and 8 thru 0 are for Asia. It's obvious that the 
Russians consider UA9S and
UA9W to be in Asia and SHOULD be zone 17. However, as I was told by CQ, 
it's their system
and they can draw the zone boundaries wherever they want!

73, Roger