[Elecraft] OT: About Grid Squares

[James Bennett]

The other issue that I run into a LOT is with folks who are either on vacation, traveling, or have moved and simply have not updated their records. They send one grid square on WSJT-X and yet QRZ has something completely different. My grid is CM98, but operating on vacation in April as DU8/W6JHB I was in PJ19, and of course QRZ knew nothing about that.

Jim Bennett / W6JHB
Folsom, CA

> On Aug 2, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Ken G Kopp <kengkopp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Many of us use QRZ.com listings to determine the grid
> square for a given station.  Use caution ... QRZ apparently
> uses the address location to determine the grid square that
> the website shows..
> 
> There are numerous situations where the address is a P.O.
> box that is -not- in the station's actual grid.  An example is
> a nearby city that happens to be split by a grid border of
> two grids and there are several stations who have P.O.
> boxes that are -not- in the grid where the station is located.
> 
> If the station you're logging is a mobile ... all bets are off. (:-)
> 
> FWIW
> 
> Ken Kopp - K0PP
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