[Dx4win] CIS Prefix Changes coming

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

I received a list of prefix changes from Russia this morning.  It
looks like the changes took effect on 23 March 2010.  The other major
change not summarized yesterday (below) is that all Russian islands
will begin with the RI (Radio-Italy) prefix, i.e.:

  RI1AN - Antarctica
  RI1FJ - Franz Josef Land
  RI1MV - Malyj Vysotskij
  RI1P
  RI0....

The last two should maintain the same CQ zones they had before.

These changes are for NEW CALLS only from what I understand.  In other
words, current UA2 stations who don't have a UA2F or UA2K prefix (like
UA2CZ) will continue to hold onto their calls, which don't fit into
the new callsign structure.   They will have to be handled as callsign
exceptions in the country file.

I'm going to release the country file that I've been working on
Saturday, 27 March.  The CIS prefix changes will be in the NEXT
release, tentatively scheduled the weekend of April 6/7.

73 - Jim AD1C

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> There is another overhaul of the CIS prefixes coming. Here is a very
> high-level summary of the changes (using UA as an example, but would
> likely apply to all prefixes beginning with RA-RZ and UA-UI):
>
> * UA2 prefixes allocated to UA3 region (eg UA2U is the same district
> as UA3U, etc.) except for UA2F and UA2K which remain as Kaliningrad.
>
> * UA5 prefixes allocated to UA3 region (eg UA5L is the same district
> as UA3L, etc.)
>
> * UA7 prefixes allocated to UA6 region (eg UA7U is the same district
> as UA6U, etc.)
>
> * UA8 prefixes allocated to UA9 region (eg UA8R is the same district
> as UA9R, etc.)

-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us