Re: [IRCA] UAE QSL

[Nick Hall-Patch <nhp@xxxxxxxx>]

At 05:24 02/05/2006, you wrote:
>Glenn Hauser wrote:
>
> > Pete, very nice, but could not possibly be 12 kilomiles away, as
> > that would be
> > almost antipodal and both of you are well into the Northern
> > Hemisphere.
>
>You're probably right, of course, but I just fed the respective
>coordinates into one of the distance programs and that's what it spit
>out. I'd certainly welcome other means of determining distance.

That's what DX Atlas says here, Pete.    Could there be a mixup of 
kilometers and miles somewhere here?  Antipodes would be more like 
20000 km away (12500 miles).  Fortunately, none of us are sending 
probes to Mars....

best wishes,

Nick




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Nick Hall-Patch
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