[Dxbase] N S COOK Island

Fri Dec 23 10:10:53 EST 2011

I wondered why Club Log kept showing my QSOs with both the North and South
Cooks as /MM until I was informed that Club Log uses yet another mapping
system. In DXBase I have North Cooks as E5/N and South Cooks as
E5/S...using individual mapping when needed.
It takes just a little attention and common sense to do the mapping
correctly.
73 and season's greetings to all,
Al, VE1AL

-----Original Message-----
From: dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:dxbase-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jack
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 10:47 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" <wa9ysd at yahoo.com>
To: "DXBASE .com" <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
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
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