Although I am now retired, I spent a lot of time in the last 20 years on amateur radio issues with the ITU in Genève. If you review the ITU document "call sign formation possibilities" which, in combination with Article 19, section 68, shows how many call in various radio services can be formed, you will see that New Zealand could not possibly be 'running out of calls' as they have enough for millions of amateur stations. [Maybe not the short snappy kind of calls that contest operators prefer] ITU has allocated E5A-E5Z to New Zealand specifically for the Cook Islands. From the standpoint of ITU for regulatory purposes, North v South has no meaning. I agree completely with Jack's conclusion.
BTW, call sign series are allocated by a World Radiocommunication Conference, the ITU Secretary General has delegated authority under 19.33 to make a provisional allocation between Conferences to change the series allocations subject to confirmation by the next Conference. The next Conference will be held from 23 Jan 2012 to 17 Feb 2012 at the CICG Conference Center in Genève. It will be first one I have not attended since 1992 in Torremolinos, Spain and I will be following the results to see how the amateur services do! Larry W4RA > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 9:47 AM > To: Jim WA9YSD; DXBASE .com > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] N S COOK Island > > Your suggestions would most likely be sufficient for most ARRL > designated countries but it doesn't work for the North vs South Cook > Islands because the issuing authority does not make any distinction for > prefixes between North and South Cook. Thus, it is not possible to > assign a specific prefix to each country. Only recourse is to do a > callsign map in DXbase once you learn about a particular callsign for > North or South Cook. Since activity on North Cook is rare, it makes > more sense to use the prefix map to map to South Cook by default and > then you can reserve callsign maps for those calls that are actually > North Cook. Even this is not always foolproof because you could find a > situation where the same callsign gets used for both North and South. > In other words, I'm not aware of any method that is 100 percent > predictable and accurate, so we do the best we can. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim WA9YSD" <[email protected]> > To: "DXBASE .com" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:35 PM > Subject: [Dxbase] N S COOK Island > > > E5A-E5Z is designated as Cook Island by the Allocation of International > Call > signs. ARRL Post the same thing on their web site. I had thought the > old > prefix was ZK1. I believe in 2006 this was changed to E5. ZK1 had the > same > issues. E5 can also be a New Zealand call as well. > > New Zealand is trying to give the Cooks their own prefix as their > prefixes > run out. Look this issue up on Wikipedia to get more details. Just my > opinion. > > Each logging program thats out there deals with this issue in their own > way. > Best is keeping up with publications and try to prepare for what > prefixes > New Zealand issues for the Cooks for what Island. > > Stay on course, fight a good fight, and keep the faith. Jim K9TF/WA9YSD > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 12/23/2011 Tested on: 12/23/2011 11:26:10 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2011 AVAST Software. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 111223-0, 12/23/2011 Tested on: 12/23/2011 11:26:27 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2011 AVAST Software. http://www.avast.com ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
