[CQ-Contest] RE: What country...

[Marijan Miletic, S56A]

ITU being part of UN follows national prefix allocations while DXCC is an
ARRL list.
There is also WAE list used in CQ WW and WAEDC contests.
Just for a fun check the following recent prefixes:  IH9, MZ5, R73, TA1,
YZ4...

73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU

P.S.  ITU list is very handy for new exotic prefixes.  AD1C prefers manual
editing of cty.dat :-)
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Bill at ng3k.com
  To: cq-contest at contesting.com
  Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 4:02 PM
  Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] RE: What country...



  On 18 Dec 2001 at 4:08, John Warren wrote:

  > Quite regularly someone asks "What country is xxxxxx?"; "Where is
  > yyyyy?".
  >
  > Every legal operation uses an ITU prefix. Just look it up in
  > "Allocation of International Call Sign Series" in the back of ARRL's
  > DXCC List publication.

  Heck, assuming you're connected to the cluster you don't even
  have to do that.  Just enter "sh/pr e2":

  NG3K de K1TTT    18-Dec 1558Z  arc >
  sh/pr e2
  HS Thailand:     CQ 26  ITU 49

  73,

  Bill/NG3K


--
CQ-Contest on WWW: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/
Administrative requests: cq-contest-REQUEST at contesting.com