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To: AmericanInTokyo

Don't count on it. These are mostly aboriginal people.

8 posted on 02/21/2003 12:32:34 PM PST by Jack Black

Yes, but for sure there are some 'just hanging out' expats, retires, etc. in from 'the world' and it only follows that some of them are amateur radio operators. I have a hard time believing the original claim of this article that the entire island is shut off from the world completely.

9 posted on 02/21/2003 1:25:37 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Easy to UNDERRATE N.Korea: Idiotic leader, starving people. BUT DON'T! They could attack in a flash.)

Nauru hams in Australia
About half Nauru’s active amateur population is in Melbourne at the moment. One of those visiting was Norman C21NJ. Norman was here for a medical checkup and dropped in to see Lee VK3GK. Rob C21DX was also in town, but couldn’t come over at that time. Nauru is only 12 square miles in area, has a population of about 8000 people. There are 8 resident hams but only two or three are active. Lee said that it was really great to catch up with people you talk to on the radio. QSL cards were exchanged also. If you want to work Nauru, try 14.260 MHz any time as a couple of the amateurs monitor that frequency.

--From an amateur radio website, (in 1999), which might contradict the headline about Nauru being shut off from the world.

10 posted on 02/21/2003 1:31:59 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Easy to UNDERRATE N.Korea: Idiotic leader, starving people. BUT DON'T! They could attack in a flash.)

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