Hi ! according to my (sorry, nothing official) all territories of the Vatican belongs to the Vatican State, not only the "inner" city about the Dome in downtown Rome. There are many vatican "areas" which do not belong to Italy, e.g. some guest houses, churches/etc., schools/universities (e.g. the North American College. All of these areas are administrated by the vatican telecommunication authority, and they (the Vatican) issue licences for radio operations. Amateur radio OPs also use only HV callsigns from these patchwork of territories in and around Rome, e.g. HV4NAC (Club station of the North American College), HV5PUL (Club station of the Pontificia University Lateranese), also once the Vatican Observatory had an own HV callsign. I remebered many years ago a german amateur radio OP operated with an italian licence from a church guesthouse many kilometers away from the Vatican City, he and the italian "PTT" got much much trouble as this "hotel" belongs to the Vatican (none [the german and the italian] of them did knows that at this time). Summary: I think (mabe we have a international or vatican law "lawer" on the HCDX list for any official position) all of these buildings/garden/Cemitary (I remember a TV report of a german church owed grave yeard which is also vatican territory) in and around are real vatican state territories.
I asked some months ago Vatican Radio by email and they told me that they ONLY use the Santa Maria di Galleria site for their SW transmissions this time. The only other TX site is a medium wave transmitter in the Vatican Gardens on 1260 kHz with 5 kW - Got a QSL for this one, with the "QTH and TX details" written on the card (via the german section of RV). 73, Tom - DL8AAM ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2003 is out! Order it now! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059677/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
