[OKDXA] HRD Logbook Users - Reporting Error for W8S (Swain's Island)

[Jeff Martin]

Hello Brian,
   I think I saw you work W8S on 20 FT8 this morning... Congrats!

   I use DXKeeper for logging. It too, by default, assumes that the W8S 
callsign is USA. For this callsign and many other non-standard 
callsigns, I have to make a manual entry one time in the DXKeeper DXCC 
database. Then it identifies subsequent QSOs with that callsign 
correctly. When a database upgrade comes out for DXKeeper it might or 
might not have that callsign added. The French possessions callsigns 
beginning with TX, TO, & TM are some others that usually have to be 
entered manually.

   The W8S callsign was requested by Adrian Ciuperca - KO8SCA as a 1x1 
Special Event Call Sign for the W8S Swains Island DXpedition with a 
start date of October 4, 2023 and an end date of October 18, 2023. This 
special event call sign was assigned by the ARRL... Adrian is one of the 
Swains operators...

73,
Jeff - K5WE

------ Original Message ------
>From "kodiak" <kodiakat777 at gmail.com>
To okdxa at mailman.qth.net
Date 10/8/2023 11:58:04 AM
Subject [OKDXA] HRD Logbook Users - Reporting Error for W8S (Swain's 
Island)

>Note for HRD Logbook Users.  The HRD Logbook database lists the prefix
>"KH8/S" for Swains Island.  When autologging from WSJT-X or Gridtracker
>the  "W8" prefix will be incorrectly logged as 'United States' .  The HRD
>database lists "KH8/s" as the registered alias for Swains Island.     Will
>need to manually correct the QSO country code and re-upload to LOTW if HRD
>is your reporting engine.
>
>Not sure why Swain's was assigned "W8", "KH8" is assigned to the U.S.
>Administered territories of American Samoa (including Swains Island with
>'s' suffix).  Perhaps it's due to a territorial dispute, Swain's is also
>claimed by the Territory of Tokelau;  perhaps by using "W8" it doesn't
>create ruffle feathers by indirect association with American Samoa.
>Politics are creeping into Amateur Radio, how much longer before the PRC
>pulls the prefix for Hong Kong and assigns the provincial "B" ?
>
>Brian, AA5H
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