The "new" codes you are referring to came from an ISO 3166-1 document. ISO stands for Internartioanl Organization for Standardization and was set up to define arbitrary systems.
The codes you mention were actually created in 1974 and modified until the current ISO 3166-1 listing. I would assume that ITU is fibnally getting with the times and upgrading their designations to match the rest of the world. Bob On 10/4/11, Karel Honzík <[email protected]> wrote: > from BC-DX No.1027 (August 12, 2011): > > QUOTE > + + + + Recent changes of ITU calls + + + + + > <http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mm/scripts/mm.list?_search=ITUstates&_territories=Y> > i.e. Netherlands NLD instead of HOL; Myanmar MMR instead of BRM; > Bulgaria > BGR instead of BUL; Netherlands Caribic BES (Bonaire, St. Eustatius, > Saba) > (Patrick Robic-AUT, Guenter Lorenz-D, A-DX Aug 6) > UNQUOTE > > When you take a look at this list today, you will find NLD and BGR > taken back to HOL and BUL and Myanmar has got another new symbol: > MYA. > > In fact there exist two lists (!!!): > > http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mm/scripts/mm.list?_search=ITUstates&_territories > http://www.itu.int/cgi-bin/htsh/mm/scripts/mm.list?_search=ITUstates&_territories=Y > > The first list does not contain Netherlands Caribbean ! > > So which one is valid actually and what we should think about the > changes changed again? (Or have I missed something?) > > Karel Honzik, CZE > > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- > > Order your WRTH 2011: > http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 > ---[End Commercial]----------------------- > ________________________________________ > Hard-Core-DX mailing list > [email protected] > http://montreal.kotalampi.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.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://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
