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ARLX010 CIS amateur calls
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Special Bulletin 10  ARLX010
From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT  May 21, 1993
To all radio amateurs

CIS amateur calls

The Russian newspaper Patriot has published a list of new call sign
prefix allocations for amateurs in countries of the the Commonwealth
of Independent States.  The list appeared in the April 22 column ''On
the Amateur Bands,'' by Boris Stepanov, UW3AX, who attributed the
information to UA3AF:

Armenia -- EK
Azerbaydzhan -- 4J
Belarus -- EU, EV, EW
Georgia -- 4L
Kazakhstan -- UN, UO, UP, UQ
Moldova -- ER
Kyrgyzstan -- EX
Russia -- R, UA to UI, 4K
Tadzhikistan -- EY
Turkmeniya -- EZ
Ukraine -- UJ to UM, UR to UZ, EM, EO

Uzbekistan was missing from the list.  There was no indication of
implementation dates nor what would be the status of current call
signs that do not conform to this outline.
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