Re: [IRCA] TAs Last Night

[Russ Edmunds <wb2bjh@xxxxxxxxx>]

For a period of time years ago the BCB hobby treated Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao ( the ABC islands ) as a single political entity despite having decent distance between them. Later they somehow - I don't recall either when or how - into 3 countries.

I also can't recall whether I ever re-combined the Germanies after they reunited. If I didn't it was more from the simple failure to take the time than anything else...


Russ Edmunds
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--- On Thu, 1/21/10, Jim Renfrew <jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jim Renfrew <jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [IRCA] TAs Last Night
> To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 11:31 PM
> 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" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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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