Subject: Re: Is Cyprus Europe or Asia
Date: May 17, 2001 @ 08:13
Author: Peter Smaardijk ("Peter Smaardijk" <smaardijk@...>)
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> Excuse me for bringing this mess into this group....No, the more the merrier.
> Azerbaijan (do you mean that by Azeri?) = ASYes. I think Azeri is the adjective. But I could be wrong, because it
>Pantelleria.
> By the way Italy has some islands which are in AF: Isole di
> Bolivia is SA but has NA islands (a.o. Baja Nuevo).You mean Columbia?
> Japan, including Ogasawara, is AS but Minami Torishima is OC.Hmm, I beg to disagree. I think. Where are those boundaries running
> Antarctica is divided into a SA (South America), AF and an OC part!
> Heard Island, according to its call-sign allocation "connected" toAustralia (which is OC), is AF.
>north.
> Tripoints according to my Map of the World for Amateur Radio:
> EU/AS/AF in the Mediterranean Sea at app. 28 deg. east. and 32 deg.
> AS/OC/NA in the Pacific Ocean at app. 180 deg. east and 43 deg.north.
> NA/SA/OC in the Pacific Ocean at app. 120 deg. west and 1 deg.north.
> AF/OC/AS in the Indian Ocean at app. 90 deg. east and 1 deg. south.South Pole.
> AF/AS/OC not on the map, but I assume it is on the geographical
>the center of the map (it is of Japanese origin). The NA/SA line
> This map has some loose ends by the way. 180 deg. east/west is in
>list). It is called the DXCC list and has 334 in total on the moment.
> Radio-amateurs use a list of entities (which extends a country
> I admit it is trivial to breng this list in this group, but ishas "official" components like call-sign allocation by the
> For more info you might look at www.arrl.org and search for "dxcc".And for Cyprus: Why not split it in three? The Greek part is
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> gl
> Harry ten Veen