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This week, visit a Web site where you can dig up lots of information about that new DX country you just dug up from under the pile-up on 20 meters.

The Internet Ham Atlas is the handiwork of Darek Milka, SP6NVK. Four years in the making, the Web site contains the complete information on all 337 DXCC entities and includes more than 3000 pictures and 1100 maps.

Darek has put together an amazing collection of easily accessible data that you can use to augment your DXing experience. In addition to the information that is directly related to Amateur Radio (call sign prefix, call sign series, time zone, continent, ITU zone, CQ zone, IOTA information and maps), there are photos of the DXCC entity’s coat of arms, coins and banknotes, postage stamps, flag, satellite images and lots of data (capital, administrative subdivisions, population, language, geography and such) similar to what you find in a comprehensive almanac.

You can spend hours exploring all that this Web site has to offer. It’s one-stop, DX shopping! By the way, the Web site comes in two flavors: English and Polish. Just you select the language by clicking on the appropriate flag in the upper left corner of the home page.

Until next time, keep on surfin’.

Editor’s note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, likes atlases as much as he likes maps. To discuss cartography and other cool stuff with Stan, send him an e-mail or add comments to his blog. By the way, every installment of Surfin’ is indexed here, so go look it up (whatever it may be).

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