Jack - I can clarify one thing, the role of the ITU. The Secretary-General (Dr Hammoudoun Tore) has delegated authority to assign national prefixes for all radio services (there is nothing in that power that is peculiar to the amateur service), his assignment (if indeed one is needed in this case) is provisional until confirmed by a World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC) The last one was in November 2007 where I was the principal spokesperson for the amateur community since I was serving at the time as president of IARU. I have since retired and am now "president emeritus" so I think it unlikely that I will have the interest in attending the next one which will be in January 2012.
Normally that confirmation by the WRC is just a matter of routine unless there are objections from some Administration. (I remember once the Palestine Authority thought they should have PA which didn't work from the point of view of the Dutch Administration.) The assignment of amateur callsigns within the boundaries of the available national prefix is a matter for the individual government as long as it conforms to the Article of the Radio Regulations (these were are amended recently so, for example, 4 Letter suffixes are now in accordance with the R.R. as for example a call such as YS1HUKE or XE2PTBC which were used but were NOT in accordance with RR at the time). Larry W4RA > -----Original Message----- > From: Neal Campbell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 4:16 PM > To: Jack > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] new countries prefix assignments by ITU, ARRL, > God? > > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
