[WT-support] US zone guessing in CQWW

[Franck, F4CIB]

Hi,
Had also same "issue" last week-end & at times I had also the state instead 
of the CQ zone... Master related ?
On the other hand, that means that you really have to pay attention to what 
is sent & what you log... especially, with the fact what it sounds that 
prefix is not dedicated to a zone as it use to be... So would be really 
pertinent to add this feature ?

Out of topic but just to let people know:
Win-test is a real gage of ruggedness, I had a power failure during the 
contest, and none of the QSO was lost which was not the case of the pile :(
Great job guys !

73 de Franck, F4CIB (F6KNB SOSB15 last WE)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben DL6RAI" <wintest at dl6rai.muc.de>
To: "Wintest Support Mailing List" <support at win-test.com>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 5:14 PM
Subject: [WT-support] US zone guessing in CQWW


> Contesters:
>
> During last weekend's CQWW SSB, I realized that WT's CQ zone
> guessing on US stations is wrong if the US station is outside
> the 1,2,3,4-call area.
>
> A test brings up the following:
>
>    Call     WT's Guess        Correct
>    W1AAA  =>   05               ok
>    W2AAA  =>   05               ok
>    W3AAA  =>   05               ok
>    W4AAA  =>   05               ok
>    W5AAA  =>   05              WRONG
>    W6AAA  =>   05              WRONG
>    W7AAA  =>   05              WRONG
>    W8AAA  =>   05              WRONG
>    W9AAA  =>   05              WRONG
>    W0AAA  =>   05              WRONG
>
> Being a 10+ years CT user, I am used to CT's guessing and when
> I hear W8AAA say "5904" I just press the enter key. Knowing that
> some of the US stations are actually located in the "wrong" zone,
> still around 90% fit the pattern shown above.
>
> I would like to ask the WT developers to implement the correct
> guessing. What do you think?
>
> 73 Ben, DL6RAI
> (one of DQ4W, 5600 QSOs M-2)
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