WPXLOC Release Notes

NOTE: The addition of the following four entities is based on speculation. When the ARRL make an official announcement about the status of any new entities emerging from the breakup of the former Netherlands Antilles, this file will be updated.

PJ2 is Curacao
PJ4 is Bonaire
PJ5 is St. Eustatius
PJ6 is Saba (same DXCC entity as PJ5)
PJ7 is Sint Maarten

3 March 2009

Entities: 340
Prefixes: 6,723

This is an important update for DX Spider users. The entity for some spots was determined incorrectly because of the ordering of the file. This problem occurs when the same prefix can be used for multiple entities, i.e. E5 for North/South Cook, HK0 for San Andres and Malpelo, and JD1 for Ogasawara and Minami Torishima. The following entities are the most common, and therefore the default for the given prefix:

E5 - South Cook Is
HK0 - San Andres & Providencia
JD1 - Ogasawara
VK9 - Norfolk Island
VP8 - Falkland Islands

These are the other changes:

T9 is no longer a prefix for Bosnia, E7
SY is no longer a prefix for Mt. Athos, SV/A
YZ is no longer a prefix for Serbia, YU

25 December 2007

Entities: 339
Prefixes: 5,981

Changed master prefix for Montenegro from Z7 to 4O
Removed references to ZK1 prefixes for North, South Cooks, E5
Changed master prefix for Bosnia-Herzegovina from T9 to E7
Removed 4N4 prefix from Bosnia-Herzegovina, E7
Added St. Barthelemy, FJ
Removed YU5 prefix from Macedonia, Z3

26 July 2006

Entities: 338
Prefixes: 5,993

Renamed 3B7 to St. Brandon
Corrected local GMT offset for Vietnam, 3W
Removed references to old Russian prefixes in country names
Removed duplicate 4U1U prefix
Added 4U1VIC as Vienna International Center, OE
Added 4U1WB as World Bank, Washington D.C.
Removed P30, P36 prefixes from Cyprus, 5B
Renamed Malagasy Republic, 5R to Madagascar
Renamed Western Samoa, 5W to Samoa
Corrected local GMT offset for Uganda, 5X
Corrected local GMT offset for Algeria, 7X
Corrected latitude of Barbados, 8P
Corrected local GMT offset for Guyana, 8R
Added 9M6 Sabah and Sarawak
Added 9W4, 9W4 prefixes to West Malaysia, 9M2
Added 9W6, 9W8 prefixes to East Malaysia, 9M6
Corrected time zone for Nepal, 9N
Corrected spelling of Bahrain, A9
Added prefixes BM, BN, BP, BQ, BU and BX to Taiwan, BV
Removed prefixes BM, BN, BP, BQ, BU and BX from China, BY
D5 is Liberia, EL, not Gambia, C5
Changed 8J prefix for Antarctica, CE9 to 8J1R
Removed Y90 prefix from Antarctica, CE9
Corrected local GMT offset for Easter Island, CE0Y
Removed duplicate prefix DE from Germany, DL
Corrected spelling of Philippines, DU
Assigned unique country number to Eritrea, E3
Corrected local GMT offset for Canary Is, EA8
Corrected local GMT offset for Iran, EP
Corrected local GMT offset for Moldova, ER
Corrected local GMT offset for Estonia, ES
Corrected local GMT offset for Belarus, EU
Corrected local GMT offset for Tajikistan, EY
Removed prefixes FA, FB, FD, FE, FF, FI, FL, FN, FQ, FU, FV, FX and FZ from France, F
Added FK prefix to Chesterfield Is., FK/C
Corrected local GMT offset for Juan de Nova, FR/J
Fixed all prefixes for United Kingdom (2,G,M)
Corrected local GMT offset for Solomon Islands, H4
Corrected spelling of Temotu, H40
Corrected spelling of Liechtenstein, HB0
Corrected local GMT offset for Haiti, HH
Corrected local GMT offset for Dominican Republic, HI
Added HJ0, 5J0 and 5K0 prefixes to San Andres, HK0/A
Added 6N to Korea, HL
Removed IA, IB, etc. prefixes from Italy, I
Assigned Italy country code to Sicily and African Italy
Added IH9 prefix for African Italy
Added IM0, IW0U, IW0V, IW0W, IW0X, IW0Y and IW0Z to Sardinia, IS
Added IW9 to Sicily, I (IT9)
Added JA3, JA6, JA7 and JA8 prefixes to Japan, JA
Fixed 8L prefix for Japan, JA
Added 8N prefix to Japan, JA
ITU Zone for Minami-Torishima, JD/M is 90
Corrected local GMT offset for Minami-Torishima, JD/M
Assigned Svalbard country code to Bear Island
Corrected local GMT offset for Jan Mayen, JX
Changed KG6 prefix for Guam, KH2 to KG6DX
Changed Alaska prefixes AL7, NL7 and WL7 to AL, NL and WL
Corrected local GMT offset for Lithuania, LY
Removed OEM prefix from Austria, OE
Added OG0 and OI0 prefixes for Aland Is., OH0
Removed OK1 and OK2 prefixes for Czech Republic, OK
Removed duplicate PP, PT and ZY prefixes from Brazil, PY
Added ZV0F and ZW0F prefixes to Fernando de Noronha, PY0F
Added ZV0S and ZW0S prefixes to St. Peter & Paul Rocks, PY0S
Added ZV0T and ZW0T prefixes to Trindade, PY0T
Corrected local GMT offset for Trindade, PY0T
Corrected spelling of Suriname, PZ
Corrected local GMT offset for Franz Josef Land, R1FJ
Removed duplicate 7S and 8S prefixes from Sweden, SM
Removed Southern Sudan, ST0 (deleted)
Added SZ5 prefix to Dodecanese, SV5
Added SZ9 prefix to Crete, SV9
Corrected local GMT offset for Western Kiribati, T30
Banaba, T33 is in ITU Zone 65
Corrected spelling of Somalia, T5
Corrected local GMT offset for Kaliningrad, UA2
Corrected local GMT offset for Kazakhstan, UN
Corrected local GMT offset for Ukraine, UR
Corrected local GMT offset for Namibia, V5
Corrected spelling of New Brunswick (VE)
Willis I., VK9/W is in ITU Zone 55
Corrected local GMT offset for Lord Howe Is, VK9/L
Corrected local GMT offset for Christmas Is, VK9/X
Corrected local GMT offset for Turks & Caicos, VP5
Corrected local GMT offset for Falkland Is, VP8/F
Corrected local GMT offset for South Shetland, VP8/H
Corrected local GMT offset for South Orkney, VP8/O
Fixed prefixes for Andaman & Nicobar Is., VU7/A, and Laccadive Is., VU7/L
Renamed St. Kitts, V4 to St. Kitts Nevis
Changed WV-West-VA-Virginia-W to WV-West-Virginia-W
Corrected spelling of Burkina-Faso, XT
Corrected spelling of Macau, XX
Changed name of Burma, XZ to Myanmar
Corrected geographic coordinates of Serbia & Montenegro (YU), Bosnia-Hercegovina (T9), Macedonia (Z3), Croatia (9A) and Slovenia (S5)
Assigned unique country number to Macedonia, Z3
Corrected spelling of UK Sovereign Base, ZC4
Removed ZE prefix from Zimbabwe, Z2
Corrected spelling of Tokelau, ZK3
Removed V50, V51 prefixes from Namibia, V5

3 June 2006

Baseline release from DXSpider source tree