Add "ITU Zone" condition similar to "CQ Zone"

KS9J · February 2, 2026, 2:03pm

HamAlert has been instrumental in helping me obtain various CQ WAZ award milestones. It would be great if HamAlert would add a similar condition for ITU Zones in order to assist me with the RSGB’s Worked ITU Zone award:

I’m having to implement workarounds to identify stations in various ITU zones.
Thank you,
Larry KS9J

HB9DQM · February 4, 2026, 8:18am

The HamAlert backend supports ITU zones, but as we’re currently lacking a way of reliably determining the zone for each spotted callsign, the condition is not exposed in the UI. Unfortunately, the Club Log API, which is otherwise excellent for determining DXCC and CQ zone even for special callsigns, does not return ITU zone information.

github.com/hamalert/hamalert-server

clublog.js

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          						console.error(`DXCC DB lookup failed: ${err}`);
          						return doCallback(null);
          					}
          					
          					if (!dxcc) {
          						console.error(`DXCC ${clublogResponse.DXCC} not found in DB`);
          						this.cache.set(callsign, null);
          						return doCallback(null);
          					}
          
          					// no ITU zone from Club Log?
          					if (clublogResponse.CQZ) {
          						dxcc.cq = [clublogResponse.CQZ];
          					}
          					if (clublogResponse.Continent) {
          						dxcc.continent = [clublogResponse.Continent];
          					}
          					
          					this.cache.set(callsign, dxcc);
          					
          					doCallback(dxcc);

KS9J · February 5, 2026, 9:34pm

Thank you, Manuel, for the response! I hope you (we) locate somewhere that has an API you could use. For now, I’ll continue to enter stations’ grid squares into the zone-check.eu website to identify their ITU zones. Hmm…maybe you could exploit some API from that site?

Larry KS9J

HB9DQM · February 10, 2026, 8:28am

Hmm, I guess if we had a reliable, scalable way of obtaining station coordinates (lat/lon) for any given callsign, then it wouldn’t be hard to implement an ITU zone lookup like in the web application that you mentioned. Knowing the coordinates would also make a locator condition possible, something that has been requested before. I’ve investigated station location APIs in the past, but so far, no suitable solution has come up.