"Scotland, England"?

[Jay M (DV7GDL)]

I was heard by GB1KBR on 12 meters FT8 just now. The pop-up balloon gives his location as "Scotland, England." I dare you to go to Scotland and call it England! :D

[Philip Gladstone]

Ugh. I'll take a look. I get the location names from an external service. 

Philip

Philip Gladstone

On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM Jay M (DV7GDL) <jaymo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was heard by GB1KBR on 12 meters FT8 just now. The pop-up balloon gives his location as "Scotland, England." I dare you to go to Scotland and call it England! :D

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On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 3:43 AM Jay M (DV7GDL) <jaymo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was heard by GB1KBR on 12 meters FT8 just now. The pop-up balloon gives his location as "Scotland, England." I dare you to go to Scotland and call it England! :D

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[Philip Gladstone]

The reason for this is that GB1KBR is a callsign that can be issued to anyone in the UK as a special event callsign (as I understand). However, the country-files.com data maps that callsign to the DX entity 'England'. If you want to email AD1C to say that GB1KBR is actually in the scotland DX entity and he can update the file that is used by (essentially) everybody. 

Philip

Philip Gladstone

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[Jay M (DV7GDL)]

Thanks, Philip. I emailed Jim and let him know. Not that it's really that important to me, but it may be to someone.

73.

[Jay]

Just FYI, Jim replied as follows:

Hi Jay,

I don't know how PSK Reporter maintains their country database.

My data file have had GB1KBR since 7 March 2025:

https://www.country-files.com/cty-3507-07-march-2025/

• GB1KBR is Scotland, GM

73 - Jim AD1C

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