COMMON PREFIXES OF COUNTRIES (2000)
Ø = Zero; “I.” = Island; “Is.” = Islands
UPDATED 3/01
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COUNTRY
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1AØ 1S 3A 3B6, 3B7 3B8 3B9 3C 3CØ 3D2 3DA 3V 3W, XV 3X 3Y 3Y 4J-4K 4L 4P-4S 4U_UN 4U_ITU 4W 4X, 4Z 5A 5B 5H-5I 5N-5O 5R-5S 5T 5U 5V 5W 5X 5Y-5Z 6V-6W 6Y 7O 7P 7Q 7T-7Y 8P 8Q 8R 9A 9G 9H 9I, 9J 9K 9L 9M2, 9M4 9M6, 9M8 9N 9Q-9T 9U 9V 9X 9Y-9Z A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A9 AP-AS BS7 BV
Sov. Mil. Order of Malta Spratly Is. Monaco Agalega & St. Brandon Is. Mauritius Rodriguez I. Equatorial Guinea Pagalu I. Fiji Is., Rotuma I. & Conway Reef Swaziland Tunisia Vietnam Guinea Bouvet I. Peter I I. Azerbaijan Georgia Sri Lanka United Nations HQ ITU Headquarters UN Transitional Admin. in East Timor Israel Libya Cyprus Tanzania Nigeria Madagascar Mauritania Niger Togo Samoa Uganda Kenya Senegal Jamaica Yemen Lesotho Malawi Algeria Barbados Maldive Is. Guyana Croatia Ghana Malta Zambia Kuwait Sierra Leone West Malaysia East Malaysia Nepal Democratic Rep. of Congo Burundi Singapore Rwanda Trinidad & Tobago Botswana Tonga Oman Bhutan United Arab Emirates Qatar Bahrain Pakistan Scarborough Reef Taiwan
BV9P BY, BT C2 C3 C5 C6 C8-C9 CA-CE CEØY CEØZ CEØX CE9, KC4, VP8, etc. CM, CO CN CP CT CT3 CU CV-CX CYØ CY9 D2, D3 D4 D6 DA-DL DU-DZ E3 E4 EA-EH EA6-EH6 EA8-EH8 EA9-EH9 EI-EJ EK EL EP-EQ ER ES ET EU-EW EX EY EZ F FG FH FJ, FS FK FK/C FM FO FO FP FR FR/G FR/J, FR/E FR/T FT8W FT8X FT8Z FW FY G, GX, M GD, GT, MD GI, GN, MI GJ, GH, MJ
Pratas I. China Nauru Andorra The Gambia Bahamas Mozambique Chile Easter I. Juan Fernandez Is. San Felix & San Ambrosio Is. Antarctica, etc. Cuba Morocco Bolivia Portugal Madeira Is. Azores Uruguay Sable I. St. Paul I. Angola Cape Verde Comoros Germany Philippines Eritrea Palestine Spain Balearic Is. Canary Is. Ceuta & Melilla Ireland Armenia Liberia Iran Moldova Estonia Ethiopia Belarus Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan France Guadeloupe Mayotte Saint Martin New Caledonia Chesterfield Is. Martinique French Polynesia Clipperton, Austral, & Marquesas I. St. Pierre & Miquelon Reunion I. Glorioso Is. Juan de Nova & Europa Is. Tromelin I. Crozet Is. Kerguelen Is. Amsterdam & St. Paul Is. Wallis & Futuna Is. French Guiana England Isle of Man Northern Ireland Jersey
GM, GS, MM GU, GP, MU GW, GC, MW H4 H4Ø HA, HG HB HBØ HC-HD HC8-HD8 HH HI HJ-HK HKØ HKØ HL HO-HP HQ-HR HS, E2 HV HZ I ISØ, IMØ J2 J3 J5 J6 J7 J8 JA-JS JD1 JD1 JT-JV JW JX JY K, W, N, AA-AK KC6 T8 KG4 KHØ KH1 KH2 KH3 KH4 KH5 KH5K KH6-KH7 KH7K KH8 KH9 KL KP1 KP2 KP3-KP4 KP5 LA-LN LO-LW LX LY LZ OA-OC OD OE OF-OI OHØ OHØM
Scotland Guernsey Wales Solomon Is. Temotu Province Hungary Switzerland Liechtenstein Ecuador Galapagos Is. Haiti Dominican Republic Colombia San Andres & Providencia Malpelo I. South Korea Panama Honduras Thailand Vatican Saudi Arabia Italy Sardinia Djibouti Grenada Guinea-Bissau St. Lucia Dominica St. Vincent Japan Minami-Torishima Ogasawara Mongolia Svalbard Jan Mayen Jordan U.S.A. Palau Guantanamo Bay Marianas Is. Baker & Howland Is. Guam Johnston I. Midway I. Palymra & Jarvis Is. Kingman Reef Hawaii Kure I. American Samoa Wake I. Alaska Navassa I. Virgin Is. Puerto Rico Desecheo I. Norway Argentina Luxembourg Lithuania Bulgaria Peru Lebanon Austria Finland Aland Is. Market Reef
OK-OL OM ON-OT OX OY OZ P2 P4 P5 PA-PI PJ2, PJ4, PJ9 PJ5-PJ8 PP-PY PPØ-PYØF PPØ, PYØS PPØ, PYØT PZ R1FJ R1MV SØ S2 S5 S7 S9 SA-SM SN-SR ST SU SV/A SV-SZ SV5 SV9 T2 T3Ø T31 T32 T33 T5 T7 T9 TA-TC TF TG, TD TI, TE TI9 TJ TK TL TN TR TT TU TY TZ UA-UI1,3,4,6, RA-RZ UA-UI8,9,Ø, RA-RZ UA2 UJ-UM UN-UQ UR-UZ, EM-EO V2 V3 V4 V5 V6 V7
Czech Republic Slovak Republic Belgium Greenland Faroe Is. Denmark Papua New Guinea Aruba North Korea Netherlands Netherlands Antilles St. Maarten, Saba, St. Eustatius Brazil Fernando de Noronha St. Peter & St. Paul Rocks Trindade I. & Martim Vaz Is. Surinam Franz Josef Land Malyj Vysotskij I. Western Sahara Bangladesh Slovenia Seychelles Sao Tome & Principe Sweden Poland Sudan Egypt Mount Athos Greece Dodecanese Crete Tuvalu West Kiribati Is. Central Kiribati Is. East Kiribati Is. Banaba I. Somalia San Marino Bosnia-Herzegovina Turkey Iceland Guatemala Costa Rica Cocos I. Cameroon Corsica Central African Republic Congo Gabon Chad Cote d'Ivoire Benin Mali European Russia Asiatic Russia Kaliningrad Uzbekistan Kazakhstan Ukraine Antigua & Barbuda Belize St. Kitts & Nevis Namibia Micronesia Marshall Is.
V8 VE, VO, VY VK VKØ VKØ VK9C VK9L VK9M VK9N VK9W VK9X VP2E VP2M VP2V VP5 VP6 VP8 VP8, LU VP8, LU, CE9, 4K1, HFØ VP8, LU VP8, LU VP9 VQ9 VS6, VR2 VU VU VU XA-XI XA4-XI4 XT XU XW XX9 XY-XZ YA YB-YH YI YJ YK YL YN YO-YR YS YT-YU, YZ YV-YY YVØ Z2 Z3 ZA ZB2 ZC4 ZD7 ZD8 ZD9 ZF ZK1 ZK1 ZK2 ZK3 ZL-ZM ZL7 ZL8 ZL9 ZP ZR-ZU ZS8
Brunei Canada Australia Heard I. Macquarie I. Cocos (Keeling) Is. Lord Howe I. Mellish Reef Norfolk I. Willis I. Christmas I. Anguilla Montserrat British Virgin Is. Turks & Caicos Is. Pitcairn I. Falkland Is. South Georgia I. South Shetland Is. South Orkney Is. South Sandwich Is. Bermuda Chagos Is. Hong Kong Andaman & Nicobar Is. Laccadive Is. India Mexico Revilla Gigedo Burkina Faso Cambodia Laos Macao Myanmar Afghanistan Indonesia Iraq Vanuatu Syria Latvia Nicaragua Romania El Salvador Yugoslavia Venezuela Aves I. Zimbabwe Macedonia Albania Gibraltar UK Sov. Base on Cyprus St. Helena I. Ascension I. Tristan da Cunha & Gough Is. Cayman Is. South Cook Is. North Cook Is. Niue Tokelau Is. New Zealand Chatham Is. Kermadec Is. Auckland & Campbell Is. Paraguay South Africa Prince Edward & Marion Is.
AMATEUR SATELLITE FREQUENCY GUIDE SATELLITE
UPLINK
AO-10 UO-11 UO-14 AO-16 LO-19 LO-19 (cont.) FO-20 UO-22 KO-25 IO-26 AO-27
435.030-180
DOWNLINK
145.825-975 145.825 145.975 435.070 145.90, 92, 94,96 437.025 145.84, 86, 88, 90 437.125 (CW) 437.150 (Digital) 145.9-146 435.8-.9 145.900/975 435.120 436.500 145.980 145.875, 900, 925, 950 435.822 145.850 436.795
BEACON
SATELLITE
UPLINK
DOWNLINK
145.810 2401.500
TO-31 SO-33 PO-34 UO-36 RS-12 (mode A) RS-12 (mode K) RS-12 (mode T) RS-13 (mode A) RS-13 (mode K) RS-13 (mode T) RS-15 (mode A)
145.925
436.925 437.910 436.500 437.025/40 29.41-45 29.41-45 145.91-95 29.46-50 29.46-50 145.96-146 29.36-40
2401.1428 435.797/91 435.797
436.500 145.960 145.91-95 21.21-25 21.21-25 145.96-146 21.26-30 21.26-30 145.86-90
BEACON
29.408/454 29.408/454 145.912/959 29.458/504 29.458/504 145.862/908 29.353/398
Updated April 2001 SATELLITE
UPLINK
AO-40 FO-29 TiungSAT-1 SAUDISAT-1A SAUDISAT-1B ARISS
DOWNLINK
BEACON
2401.318 (Mode S) 145.9-146 435.8-.9 435.797 145.85; 145.925 437.325 TBA 437.075 TBA 436.775 145.990 (Packet) 145.800 (Voice & Packet) 145.200 (Voice - Region 1) 144.490 (Voice - Region 2 & 3)
For more satellite information contact AMSAT, PO Box 27, Washington, DC 20044
BAND PLAN FREQUENCY ASSIGNMENTS 23-cm, 1240-1300 MHz ARRL Band Plan
ARRL 70-cm Wavelength Band Plan, 420-450 MHz
ARRL 33-cm Wavelength Band Plan, 902-928 MHz (cont.)
ARRL 2 Meter Wavelength Band Plan, 144-148 MHz (cont.)
MHz
MHz
MHz
Use
MHz
Use
904-906 906-907 906.50 907-910
Digital communications Narrow bandwidth FM-simplex services, 25 kHz channels National simplex frequency FM repeater inputs paired with 919-922 MHz; 119 pairs every 25 kHz; e.g., 907.025, 907.050, 907.075, etc., 908-920 MHz uncoordinated pair ATV Digital communications Narrow-bandwidth, FM control links and remote bases FM repeater outputs, paired with 907-910 MHz Wide-bandwidth experimental, simplex ATV, Spread Spectrum
146.01-146.37 146.40-146.58 146.61-146.97 147.00-147.39 147.42-147.57 147.60-147.99
Repeater inputs Simplex Repeater outputs Repeater outputs Simplex Repeater inputs
Use
1240-1246 1246-1248
ATV #1 Narrow-bandwidth FM point-to-point links and digital, duplex with 1258-1260 MHz 1248-1252 Digital communications 1252-1258 ATV #2 1258-1260 Narrow-bandwidth FM point-to-point links and digital, duplexed with 1246-1252 MHz 1260-1270 Satellite uplinks 1260-1270 Wide-bandwidth experimental, simplex ATV 1270-1276 Repeater inputs, FM and linear, paired with 1282-1288 MHz, 239 pairs every 25 kHz, e.g., 1270.025, 1270.050, 1270.075, etc., 1271.0-1238.0 MHz uncoordinated test pair 1276-1282 ATV #3 1282-1288 Repeater outputs, paired with 1270-1276 MHz 1288-1294 Wide-bandwidth experimental, simplex ATV 1294-1295 Narrow-bandwidth FM simplex services, 25 kHz channels 1294.5 National FM simplex calling frequency 1295-1297 Narrow bandwidth weak-signal communications (no FM) 1295.0-1295.8 SSTV, FAX, ACSB, experimental 1295.8-1296.0 Reserved for EME, CW expansion 1296.0-1296.05 EME exclusive 1296.07-1296.08 CW beacons 1296.1 CW, SSB calling frequency 1296.4-1296.6 Crossband linear translator input 1296.6-1296.8 Crossband linear translator output 1296.8-1297.0 Experimental beacons (exclusive) 1297-1300 Digital communications
Use
420.00-426.00 ATV repeater or simplex with 421.25 MHz video carrier control links and experimental 426.00-432.00 ATV simplex with 427.250 MHz video carrier frequency 432.00-432.08 EME (Earth-Moon-Earth) 432.08-432.10 Weak-signal CW 432.100 70 cm CW/SSB calling frequency 432.10-433.00 Mixed-mode and weak-signal work 432.30-432.40 New beacon band 433.00-435.00 Auxiliary/repeater links 435.00-438.00 Satellite only uplink/downlink 438.00-444.00 ATV repeater input with 439.250 MHz video carrier frequency and repeater links 442.00-445.00 Repeater inputs and outputs (local option) 445.00-447.00 Shared by auxiliary and control links, repeaters and simplex (local option); 446.00 MHz national simplex frequency 447.00-450.00 Repeater inputs and outputs ARRL 33-cm Wavelength Band Plan, 902-928 MHz MHz
Use
902-904 902.0-902.8 902.8-903.0 903.0-903.05 903.07-903.08 903.1 903.4-903.6 903.6-903.8 903.8-904.0
Narrow-bandwidth, weak-signal communications SSTV, FAX, ACSB, experimental Reserved for EME, CW expansion EME exclusive CW beacons CW, SSB calling frequency Crossband linear translator inputs Crossband linear translator outputs Experimental beacons exclusive
910-916 916-918 918-919 919-922 922-928
ARRL 2 Meter Wavelength Band Plan, 144-148 MHz MHz
Use
144.00-144.05 144.275-144.300 144.06-144.10 144.10-144.20 144.200 144.200-144.275 144.275-144.300 144.30-144.50 144.50-144.60 144.60-144.90 144.90-145.10 145.10-145.20 145.20-145.50 145.50-145.80 145.80-146.00
EME (CW) Propagation beacons General CW and weak signals EME and weak-signal SSB National SSB calling frequency General SSB operation, upper sideband Beacon band OSCAR subband plus simplex Linear translator outputs FM repeater inputs Weak signal and FM simplex Linear translator outputs plus packet FM repeater outputs Miscellaneous and experimental modes OSCAR subband – satellite use only!
ARRL 6 Meter Wavelength Band Plan, 50.0-54.0 MHz MHz
Use
50.000-50.100 50.060-50.080 50.100-50.600 50.125 50.200
CW and beacons U.S. beacons SSB SSB DX calling frequency SSB domestic calling frequency (Note: Suggest QSY up for local & down for long-distance QSOs) AM calling frequency Experimental and special modes RTTY calling frequency Radio Control (R/C) channels, 10 ch. - 20 kHz apart Pacific DX window Newly authorized FM repeater allocation FM simplex Pacific DX window FM repeater and simplex Radio Control (R/C) channels, 10 ch. - 100 kHz apart
50.400 50.600-51.000 50.700 50.800-50.980 51.000-51.100 51.000-52.000 51.100-52.000 52.000-52.050 52.000-53.000 53.000-54.000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL NOTE: Southern California, plus other major metropolitan cities throughout the country, may adopt local 2 Meter band plans slightly different than what appears here. See your local ICOM dealer for more local details. © 2001 ICOM America, Inc. The ICOM logo is a registered trademark of ICOM, Inc. AM-5076 301
AMATEUR RADIO BAND PLAN Under restructuring all HF classes retain band privileges as indicated. General Class now 5 WPM!
UHF/VHF 1240 46
1240
52
58 60
70
76
82 N O V I C E
88
94 95 97 1300 MHz
V O I C E
1296.1 SSB 1294.5 FM
band
NOVICE VOICE AND DATA* AMATEUR TELEVISION FAST SCAN
900
SATELLITE (NO FM)
902 904
06 07
910
916
918 919
922
928 MHz
band
902.1 SSB
CW AND WEAK SIGNAL (NO FM)
440
DIGITAL
band
FM SIMPLEX
222
SSB
*420-430 MHz not available along Canadian corridor *420 426 432 32.125 33 35 438 222
222.34
223
442
445 447
223.38 N O V I C E
V O I C E
A L L
450 MHz
224
432.1 SSB 446 FM
225 MHz
B A N D
222.1 SSB 223.5 FM
band
FM REPEATER
*Grandfathered
2
All old & new license classes retain their operating privileges after April 15, 2000.
144
.1
.3
.5 .6 .9 145.1 .2
meters
.8 146 .4 .6 .61 147
.39 .42 .6
148 MHz 144.2 SSB 146.52 FM
RADIO CONTROL
6
.5
NO FM! NO FM! SSB DX WINDOW
50 .1
DX WINDOW
51 .1
SATELLITE ONLY (NO FM)
RADIO CONTROL
52.05
53
54 MHz 50.125 SSB 52.525 FM
meters
NO CODE TECHNICIANS HAVE ALL PRIVILEGES ON THESE BANDS
HF Bands
NATIONAL CALLING FREQUENCY
CALLING FREQUENCY 28.4
10
28 28.1
28.3
28.5
29.0
29.3
29.5 29.6
29.7 MHz NOV/TECH+/CODE GEN ADV* EXTRA
CW & DATA
meters
NOVICE/TECHNICIAN W/CODE, CW*
SATELLITES DOWNLINK
NOVICE/TECHNICIAN PLUS, VOICE* GENERAL VOICE, CW, SSTV, FAX
12
24.890
21
15
24.990 MHz
meters
ADVANCED VOICE, CW, SSTV, FAX* EXTRA VOICE, CW, SSTV, FAX
24.930
21.025
21.1
21.2 21.225
SSTV 21.340
21.3
17
meters 18.068
18.1
All old & new license classes retain their operating privileges after April 15, 2000.
18.11
GEN ADV* EXTRA
RTTY CW
20 30
14
SSTV 14.230
14.225
14.350 MHz GEN ADV* EXTRA
CW & FSK ONLY – MAXIMUM POWER 200 WATTS OUTPUT
10.1
10.150 MHz GEN ADV* EXTRA
meters 7.025
DX WINDOWS
7.100
7.150
SSTV 7.171
7.225
7.300 MHz NOV/TECH+/CODE GEN ADV* EXTRA
CW ONLY
meters
3.5 3.525
75/80
14.150 14.175
meters
7
40
14.025
21.450 MHz
18.168 MHz
meters
*Grandfathered
GEN ADV* EXTRA NOV/TECH+/CODE GEN ADV* EXTRA
CW ONLY
CW, FSK NO PRIVILEGES
FM
3.675 3.700 3.725 3.750 3.775
SSTV 3.845
3.850
4.0 MHz NOV/TECH+/CODE GEN ADV* EXTRA
CW ONLY
meters DX WINDOW
Developed by Gordon West, WB6NOA, RADIO SCHOOL, INC., for exclusive use by ICOM America, Inc., March, 2001.
160
1.8
DX WINDOWS (1.830 - 1.850 MHz, UNOFFICIAL)
meters
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2.0 MHz GEN ADV* EXTRA