Re: [IRCA] TAs Last Night

["Jim Renfrew" <jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're talking to the guy who volunteered too long ago with the NRC to 
create a revised country list and hasn't done it yet after at least 5 years! 
It's actually fairly complicated, with various traditions of 
country-counting:  (1)  Hams seem to count anything that has a spot of water 
in between as two countries, (2) NASWA has the approach of "once a country, 
always a country" - so there are three post-war countries in Germany instead 
of one post-Wall country today - this acknowledges that people don't like 
giving up countries even though they no longer exist.   (3) NRC has an old 
modified list, with some water separation, e.g. France and Corsica are two 
countries, Hawaii and Alaska are separate countries, but not nearly as many 
as the ham lists I've seen.  The thing that had me stumped was the Dutch 
islands in the Caribbean, which have various degrees of autonomy from the 
Netherlands and with each other with rolling dates for activating the 
changes. On top of that DXers are as independent-minded about counting 
countries as we are about counting domestic stations, e.g. call changes, 
facility changes, COL changes, etc., so as many as would use an official 
list an equal number would go their own way!

Having said all that, I'm still willing to work on something like this. 
Maybe some others are interested, too.

Jim Renfrew


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry McLarnon" <bdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" 
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Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] TAs Last Night


> On Thursday 21 January 2010 11:48:59 Jim Renfrew wrote:
> > I've been checking most early evenings, and there hasn't been too much
> >  other  than the usual big signals.  I didn't try later in the evening. 
> > I
> >  haven't had a whisper on 1476 or 1386, even during the best days in
> >  November and early December, and being good mid-channels you'd think
> >  there would be something!  1494 R. Corsa used to be indistinguishable
> >  from France synchros, but I believe they run Bleue on one and Info on 
> > the
> >  other, so Corsica is a nice logging, a separate radio "country" by some
> >  standards.    Good work!
>
> Thanks!  It sure helps to keep the interest level up when something 
> unusual
> like that happens.  Interesting point about Corsica... what do most MW 
> DXers
> use for a country list?  I haven't paid much attention to such lists up to
> now, except back in the days when I was chasing DX on the ham bands.
>
> Barry
>
> ps: there are some hints of a repeat performance tonight, with some fairly
> strong hets on the high end (and the low end, for that matter), but I 
> don't
> expect to be staying up late tonight... gotta work on the sleep deficit.
>
> --
> Barry McLarnon VE3JF  Ottawa, ON
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