[Elecraft] OT: About Grid Squares

[Fred Jensen]

Multiple ramifications here.  Unless the ham has specifically entered 
his station coordinates, the coordinates in QRZ, and thus the grid, will 
usually default to the Post Office that services his ZIP code.  It is 
"usually" because even that doesn't always happen in very small 
communities.  And to complicate things, my home grid is DM09dn.  I often 
operate W7RN remotely with my call.  That grid is DM09ei, and the two 
are good to four characters.  W1YL also operates W7RN remotely ... from 
FL, which isn't good to any characters.  I think you have to get the 
grid from the station during the QSO, if grid matters.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 8/2/2017 9:42 AM, James Bennett wrote:
> 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.
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> Jim Bennett / W6JHB
> Folsom, CA
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