[Elecraft] OT: QRZ.com "locations" caution

[Don Wilhelm]

What Ken says is true, I live on the outer perimeter of the Wake Forest, 
NC mailing area, and based on my mailing address, QRZ.com initially 
listed me in grid square FM05 when I am actually in FM06 (FM06rb to be 
more specific).
Yes, I changed it at QRZ,com, bot many others in a similar situation may 
not change theirs.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 7/3/2013 8:12 PM, Ken G Kopp wrote:
> Someone wrote; " It is very simple to check the callsign on qrz.com and see
> the qth."
>
> This simply isn't true .... be careful!
>
> Unless corrected by the licensee, the QRZ listing and everything about
> it depends on the FCC-supplied data.  If the "address of record" is a
> P. O. Box, the location will depend solely on that information.  This
> includes the grid square, county and in some cases is many miles
> the licensee's actual location.
>
> Butte, MT is split between two grid squares, and I have a friend who's
> P. O. Box address ... and QRZ info ... is in a different grid square from
> where he lives and operates.
>
> A case in point ... I'm the trustee of our club's call (W7VNE).  As far
> as anyone can recall it's -never- been on the air from it's QRZ location
> -or- even county!  Yet, it's been used in FD for over 40 years, but in a
> different (and somewhat rare) county.
>
> Things aren't always how they appear ...
>