Your suggestions would most likely be sufficient for most ARRL designated countries but it doesn't work for the North vs South Cook Islands because the issuing authority does not make any distinction for prefixes between North and South Cook. Thus, it is not possible to assign a specific prefix to each country. Only recourse is to do a callsign map in DXbase once you learn about a particular callsign for North or South Cook. Since activity on North Cook is rare, it makes more sense to use the prefix map to map to South Cook by default and then you can reserve callsign maps for those calls that are actually North Cook. Even this is not always foolproof because you could find a situation where the same callsign gets used for both North and South. In other words, I'm not aware of any method that is 100 percent predictable and accurate, so we do the best we can.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim WA9YSD" <[email protected]> To: "DXBASE .com" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:35 PM Subject: [Dxbase] N S COOK Island E5A-E5Z is designated as Cook Island by the Allocation of International Call signs. ARRL Post the same thing on their web site. I had thought the old prefix was ZK1. I believe in 2006 this was changed to E5. ZK1 had the same issues. E5 can also be a New Zealand call as well. New Zealand is trying to give the Cooks their own prefix as their prefixes run out. Look this issue up on Wikipedia to get more details. Just my opinion. Each logging program thats out there deals with this issue in their own way. Best is keeping up with publications and try to prepare for what prefixes New Zealand issues for the Cooks for what Island. Stay on course, fight a good fight, and keep the faith. Jim K9TF/WA9YSD ______________________________________________________________ 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
