Funker Tom ⚡Feb 27

Worked All Continents.

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Show threadDavid Croyle

@hensys Congratulations!

I should check again if I have worked Africa on SSB. I think I have done the rest, and I know I have on FT8.

It always strikes me as slightly odd that Antarctica is always excluded from the continent list... I'm guessing that it's considered too difficult.

Feb 27 at 4:49pmWeb
Show threadFunker Tom ⚡Feb 27
@croyle Probably too difficult. In my case only #Oceania was missing. To make it a bit harder I applied for the phone award.
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Show threadW6KMEFeb 27

@croyle @hensys I think that the ARRL list of continents considers it part of Oceana so that all of those scores of Pacific Island entities still belong to a continent. Calling Antarctica Oceana makes more sense than calling Pitcairn or Australia Antarctica I suppose.

As we all know, DCXX is a game, not a reflection of the real world.

I just checked and I DID get one SSB contact in Antarctica, from a Korean research base. LOTW counted it as Korea 😜

Show threadFunker Tom ⚡Feb 27
@W6KME
Korea great country. 😄
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Show threadDavid CroyleFeb 27

@W6KME @hensys That's too bad it counted as Korea! I always thought that based on that logic, perhaps satellite contacts should be used on whose sovereign territory they belong to. :) (Maybe they are, I don't know.)

I had an arctic contact last week I thin it was, and that counted as Russia, perhaps being a Russian op/base.

I get very excited from any Antarctic contact though, and I guess that's the real reward anyway.

Show threadFunker Tom ⚡Feb 27

@croyle
Last summer I had a QSO with DP0GVN german Neumayer III base. At least Clublog counts that as Antarctica contact.

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Show threadW6KMEFeb 27
@hensys @croyle I love that station, or at least the hams that keep the radio on. When no one is operating they still leave it running as a beacon. I have them on four bands now (all FT8), most exciting was 10m from California 👌
Show threadDavid CroyleFeb 27
@W6KME @hensys My contact with them was also on 10m. :)
Show threadDavid CroyleFeb 27
@hensys @W6KME I had a contact with that station as well. I have the QSL card stuck into a picture frame here in my home office. :)
Show threadFunker Tom ⚡Feb 27
@croyle
What surprises me more is the distinction between North America and South America. I learned it's ONE continent.
Show threadW6KMEFeb 27
@hensys @croyle That's curious; South America is half of what was once Africa. Of course, in our schools they taught us that Europe and Asia were separate continents, which is hard to justify.
Show threadFunker Tom ⚡Feb 27
@W6KME
In a certain sense, the distinction is always arbitrary.
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