[Dx4win] New Country List

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

--- "L. Sica" <lsica at comcast.net> wrote:

Hi Lou,

Thanks for trying to keep me honest.

> 1) UA9S and UA9W calls are in Zone 16. The list currently has them going
> into Zone 17. Both DXAtlas and your own list at
> http://www.ad1c.com/HamRadio/russia_a.htm verify Zone 16 is correct.

I'm really torn over these.  The majority of them claim to be in Zone 17,
though physically they are more likely in Zone 16.  I believe they want to be
in Zone 17 to get the extra inter-continent points for working Europe in the
CQWW contest.  Yes, there are some guys who claim Zone 16, but most of the QSLs
even say Zone 17.  I recently changed all of these to Zone 17, so they would
agree with *most* logs and *most* QSL cards.

> 2) The list currently tries to resolve Soviet-era Special Event Callsigns
> with an "E" prefix on a call by call basis. But they can be deciphered like
> this: Take the call EO9ACS. The "republic"/oblast can be figured out by
> taking the first letter after the prefix (the "A"), followiing it by the
> number in the prefix (the "9"), and then by the second letter after the
> prefix. This gives you A9C. Look up UA9C in an old Soviet prefix list, and
> you get Asiatic Russia and the proper Oblast/Region.

That is true in many cases, but not all cases.  I can probably find some
exceptions for you, but none off the top of my head.  I have been using
information I found on this web page:

  http://www.qsl.at/common/listen.html

They have actual QSL cards in hand, and a detailed list, by prefix, of every
one (look for "Prefix List Soviet Union, CIS"). This resource has proven
invaluable.  It looks like I messed up on EU0G, I'll have to check to find out
why I changed this. I have been meaning to incorporate this work into DX4WIN,
but it's a BIG task!  I'll make note of the correction.

73 - Jim AD1C


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