[South Florida DX Association] Russian Prefix Changes

[Bill]

I'm still trying to figure Oblasts out!
Bill Marx W2CQ



On 6/22/2011 12:39 PM, Peter Rimmel wrote:
> Bill sent the link to this, but I thought it worthwhile sending out the
> actual info on the Russian prefix changes.  Ya can't tell the players
> without a scorecard:
>
> Russian prefixes with the numeral 2 are no longer limited to Kaliningradsk.
> Stations with RA2 and UA2-UI2 (with F and K as the first letter in the
> suffix) are in Kaliningradsk; otherwise, these prefixes will used in
> European Russia.
>
> Stations with the following prefixes are in European Russia: R1, RA1-RZ1
> (except RI1 as noted below), R2, RB2-RZ2, R3-R7, RA3-RZ7, UA1 and UA3-UI7.
>
> Stations with the prefixes R8, R9, RA8-RZ9 and UA8-UI9 (with F, S, T, W or X
> as the first letter in the suffix) are in EUROPEAN Russia.
>
> Except for those listed above, all stations with 8, 9 and 0 as the numeral
> are in ASIATIC Russia.
>
> Russian Antarctic stations use temporary call signs in the series
> RI1ANA-RI1ANZ and RI00ANT to RI99ANT.
>
> Franz Jozef Land stations use temporary call signs RI1F, RI1FJ and
> RI1FJA-RI1FJZ.
>
> Malyj Visotskij island stations use temporary call signs RI1M, RI1MV and
> RI1MVA-RI1MVZ.
>
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