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GM7HUD > 40M 24.07.03 23:57l 23 Lines 777 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: 40m and Aussie reasons
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Barry VK2AAB wrote:
>Another victim of the Mercators Projection World Maps at school !
When he suggested that Korea was nearer to Europe than Australia
in response that Korea was a near neighbour to Australia. It does
however depend where you measure from and as the message was
posted from a guy in the South of the UK you'd look at where you
are on the map and then look at where Korea was and where
Australia was and if you do you will find that the following is
the distance reported by Microsoft Autoroute 2002:-
London <> Seoul = 5520 miles
Melbourne <> Seoul = 5350 miles
Perth <> Seoul = 4850 miles
So from a UK point of view Australia is nearer to Korea than the
UK is Mercator projection or otherwise. But only just! Shall we
call it a draw?
73 de Andy GM7HUD
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