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Subj: Re: Questions about H-Address Continents and Countri
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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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