Hi Jack The ARRL has assigned their ARRLID's for the countries as well as defined the official 'LoTW' name. I am sure that eQSL will/is follow the League on that front, so if prefixes are mainly for award/country tracking, the governing body seems to be the ARRL and they have spoken.
I don't think the ITU will meet until January where the governmental 'prefix' is assigned and I understand they will have to be approved by the assembly so we will be without that info for a few more months. The League has officially recognized the recent spurt of 'dxpeditions' to the 4 new countries with the caveat that LoTW will not be updated until the beginning of 2011 so it cannot give you credit for these qsos until that date. The ADIF standard committee (of which I am now the secretary) has approved version 2.2.7 of the standard which includes the new entities. AD1C has published new CTY.DAT, WLCTY.DAT and WT-CTY.DAT files recognizing the new prefixes (and known callsigns) as well as the official 'LoTW' names. I am in the final stages of the DXBUpdater and will hopefully be delivering it to the volunteered beta testers Wednesday. I obviously am a slow programmer but it will be a pretty complete tool. It will: - review all of the existing entries in the PREFIX-Pri table to make sure its in alignment with all entities; - will give the user the option to retain current records or align with the data in DXBUpdater - if you are connected to the internet, it will (with the users permission) download the latest data files from www.clublog.org and use that file as a standard for updating Prefix Mapping and Callsign Mapping, again with the user in control as to whether to accept any change from DXBUpdater or to ignore them. It will also download the latest data for the PREFIX-Pri table from www.abrohamnealsoftware.com and use that for applying dxcc entity changes - in short, it verifies you are running with the latest information available. Users should save the DXBUpdater as it can be used anytime to ensure/update your databases and logs are always up to date. I hope you will appreciate these features and understand why it takes a little time (plus, you know I am a very slow programmer!) 73 I will send a note on the list when more is known about Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Jack <[email protected]> wrote: > So, with the contest coming up this weekend, I'm wondering if anyone "in > the > know" has come up with any "official" info about the prefixes that each of > the four new countries will be using? > > I'm not asking about the ability to put new prefix designations in DXbase. > Rather, I'm wondering about the ability to recognize from a spotted > callsign, what country that callsign represents. For example PJ2 = xyz, > PJ4 > = abc, PJx = ??? Or is the case for example that a PJ2 could be in any of > several of the new ones? > > I've not found any info on the topic and a google search for ITU > assignments > doesn't show any updates. Are we left with no ability to know from a > callsign, what country that is? > > Thanks, > Jack > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase 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
