12 September 2015
SOTA JA region code shall be changed at 20:00 UTC on 25 September 2015.
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5 September 2015
This is pre-notice of major change that will be placed in SOTA Japan associations and NOT formal announcement as of today. After final approval of SOTA management team and amendment of JA ARM, it shall be executed.
SOTA Japan association region code will be changed as per the following list. The new region code is valid after approval of SOTA MT.
Current region code has duplication, even it belongs in different JA association. i.e. the code “KA” belongs in all associations such as
- JA/KA : Kanagawa
- JA5/KA : Kagawa
- JA6/KA : Kagoshima
- JA8/KA : Kamikawa, etc.
The same cases are observed for “TO”, “SA”, “HI”, “IS”, “KU”, “NA”, “OK” etc.
From the preparation time, before establishment of SOTA Japan association, we have discussed to use unique region code throughout Japan associations, but it was missed out in the last moment of my verification.
New region code is the same region code in KCJ contest that is widely used and known by most of CW lovers, and the unique code throughout JA associations.
Sorry for any inconvenience and extra effort of amendment work of databese in SOTA MT, but it will give us much clear definition and identification of each JA regions.
| Region Name | New Code | Current Code | |
|---|---|---|---|
| JA - Japan - Honshu | |||
| Aomori | AM | AO | |
| Iwate | IT | IW | |
| Akita | AT | AK | |
| Yamagata | YM | YA | |
| Miyagi | MG | MY | |
| Fukushima | FS | FK | |
| Niigata | NI | NI | No change |
| Nagano | NN | NA | |
| Tokyo | TK | TK | No change |
| Kanagawa | KN | KA | |
| Chiba | CB | CH | |
| Satiama | ST | SA | |
| Ibaragi | IB | IB | No change |
| Tochigi | TG | TO | |
| Gunma | GM | GU | |
| Yamanashi | YN | YN | No change |
| Shizuoka | SO | SZ | |
| Gifu | GF | GI | |
| Aichi | AC | AI | |
| Mie | ME | MI | |
| Kyoto | KT | KY | |
| Shiga | SI | SH | |
| Nara | NR | NR | No change |
| Osaka | OS | OS | No change |
| Wakayama | WK | WA | |
| Hyogo | HG | HY | |
| Toyama | TY | TY | No change |
| Fukui | FI | FU | |
| Ishikawa | IK | IS | |
| Okayama | OY | OK | |
| Shimane | SN | SM | |
| Yamaguchi | YG | YG | No change |
| Tottori | TT | TT | No change |
| Hiroshima | HS | HI | |
| JA5 - Japan - Shikoku | |||
| Kagawa | KA | KA | No change |
| Tokushima | TS | TO | |
| Ehime | EH | EH | No change |
| Kochi | KC | KO | |
| JA6 - Japan - Kyushu_Okinawa | |||
| Fukuoka | FO | FU | |
| Saga | SG | SA | |
| Nagasaki | NS | NA | |
| Kumamoto | KM | KU | |
| Ooita | OT | OI | |
| Miyazaki | MZ | MI | |
| Kagoshima | KG | KA | |
| Okinawa | ON | OK | |
| JA8 - Japan - Hokaido | |||
| Soya | SY | SO | |
| Rumoi | RM | RU | |
| Kamikawa | KK | KA | |
| Ohotsuku | OH | OK | |
| Sorachi | SC | SR | |
| Ishikari | IS | IS | No Change |
| Nemuro | NM | NE | |
| Shiribetsu | SB | SH | |
| Tokachi | TC | TO | |
| Kushiro | KR | KU | |
| Hidaka | HD | HD | No Change |
| Iburi | IR | IB | |
| Hiyama | HY | HI | |
| Oshima | OM | OS |