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UT1HZM > PACKET 07.03.24 14:01z 35 Lines 1110 Bytes #310 (0) @ WW
BID : 24789_UT1HZM
Read: GUEST
Subj: Re: Questions about H-Address Continents and Countri
Path: HB9ON<IW8PGT<I3XTY<I0OJJ<N6RME<CX2SA<F3KT<F3KT<UT1HZM
Sent: 240307/1317Z 24789@UT1HZM.KREM.POL.UKR.EU BPQ6.0.24
Hi Gustavo!
I0OJJ:
> as a first and short reply: since today exits no document into the world
> which indicate any code for Continents (i.e. United Nations, Geographic
> encyclopedia, ISO standard papers, and so on).
BTW in Hamradio world de-facto continent codes was provided by RSGB IOTA
dx award program, there are 6 total well known to almost all HF hams
continent codes, quoting from IOTA rules:
"LIST STRUCTURE A.2.1
The Directory lists island groups by continent –
Africa (AF), Antarctica (AN), Asia (AS), Europe (EU), North
America (NA), Oceania (OC) and South America (SA). "
And if I'm recall well, the same codes was originally adopted for packet bbs HA
"top domain" code too!
Same 6 codes used for many other tasks, for example:
https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.geoip-continent-code-by-name.php
The story about shoring to 2-letter in Europe as of many VHF nodes - more like
a myth :-) The economy of extra 2 bytes per each R-line is almost nothing...
And thank you for recall in community list of the 3-letter World's country codes too! :)
73, Sergej.
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