On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:47 PM, WO2N wrote: > Looking at the prefix list, What's the reasoning for some multi-prefix > countries identified by forward stroked, and others are not? > Example Willis is VK9W, but Malpelo is HK0/M.
The simple answer is that if a sub-prefix can be specified that is unique to that DXCC entity (i.e. PY0F, PY0S, PY0T or VK9W, VK9L, VK9C), then that prefix (without the slash) is used as the "reference" prefix. HK0M is not a unique prefix for Malpelo; in fact, other than HK0TU, and an HK5/0 that was on a few years ago, I don't know that any other callsign has been used from there. HK0 is/was also used from San Andres, Bajo Nuevo and Seranna Bank. So that is why the / notation is used. Same for VP8s, E5, FO, etc. 73 - Jim AD1C -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <[email protected]>, http://www.ad1c.us ______________________________________________________________ DX4WIN mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
