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Cuba and Puerto Rico = Latin America?

jim_kr1s <jkearman@...>
 

Pardon me for asking, but this may interest others. There are a ton of
Cuban stations; do they count for the Latin America ULR awards? How
about Puerto Rico? Or does the entire Caribbean (what's left of it on
AM) count? Thanks.

73,

Jim, KR1S
http://qrp.kearman.com/
Guido Santacana <foxam2001@...>
 

Puerto Rico is a  territory of the United States since 1898. All Puertoricans are US citizens since 1917 and have fought in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and more recently in the Gulf War, Irak and Afghanistan. The federal government has the same presence here as in any other state and that goes too for the US Postal service. The island is light years away in economic development from Cuba or the Dominican Republic. All AM stations are FCC licensed and carry the W prefix (i.e. WOSO, WUNO, WKAQ). It is like Hawaii or Alaska before they became a state of the Union. Yes, Spanish is spoken here but so is English. Stations here are not Latin American catches but US catches.

73s
Guido Santacana KP4FAR
San Juan, Puerto Rico-USA


--- On Tue, 1/19/10, jim_kr1s wrote:

From: jim_kr1s
Subject: [ultralightdx] Cuba and Puerto Rico = Latin America?
To: ultralightdx@...
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 2:06 PM

 

Pardon me for asking, but this may interest others. There are a ton of
Cuban stations; do they count for the Latin America ULR awards? How
about Puerto Rico? Or does the entire Caribbean (what's left of it on
AM) count? Thanks.

73,

Jim, KR1S
http://qrp.kearman. com/
jim_kr1s <jkearman@...>
 

Guido,

Understood. But this map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Latin_America_(orthographic_projection&#92;
).svg includes Puerto Rico. Note that Belize and other non-Spanish or
Portuguese-speaking countries are not included. The map is linked from
here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America

So I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

73,

Jim, KR1S
http://qrp.kearman.com/
Guido Santacana <foxam2001@...>
 

Yes, there is a lot of confusion about Puerto Rico. The real story is that it has never been an independent country. It went from being a Spanish territory to a US territory 112 years ago. You can't imagine how many times I have to enter into a bit of PR history when I order radios or radio parts from the mainland and some companies insist on filling out customs papers as if they were sending the items to a foreign nation. In most cases I am successful but in a minority of cases the papers are sent and the US postal service here does not even look at them! BTW support for independence here has plummeted from 10% in the 70s to 2% in the present. Well, back to radio again. Just wanted to clear up some facts regarding PR. For those trying good catches from PR, a very powerful station here is WAPA (680kHz) and a less powerful english station is WOSO(1030kHz). Very popular ones are WKAQ(580kHz) and WUNO(630kHz). All of them are in San Juan. Good hunting!

73s
Guido KP4FAR
San Juan, PR-USA


--- On Tue, 1/19/10, jim_kr1s wrote:

From: jim_kr1s
Subject: [ultralightdx] Re: Cuba and Puerto Rico = Latin America?
To: ultralightdx@...
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 3:04 PM

 

Guido,

Understood. But this map
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ File:Latin_ America_(orthographic_ projection\
).svg includes Puerto Rico. Note that Belize and other non-Spanish or
Portuguese-speaking countries are not included. The map is linked from
here: http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Latin_America

So I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.

73,

Jim, KR1S
http://qrp.kearman. com/
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