Jim, the IRCA has a country list. It was published in last year's DXM and I think it's published every year. I'm sure it's on the website. I just don't hear much foreign DX so I'm not a big country counter.
Martin Foltz Mission Viejo CA Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:31:04 -0500 From: Jim Renfrew To: "Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America" <irca@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: Re: [IRCA] TAs Last Night 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 _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list IRCA@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: irca@hard-core-dx.com