press release #10 from the RDA committee --- steps required to upgrade the district listings in accordance to the new valid RDA list --- To assist You with making the relevant changes we provide a step-by-step instruction to upgrade Your existing lists of RDA districts To reflect the union of Chitinskaya oblast (CT) and Aginsko Buryatsky Autonomous Okrug (AB) into the Zabajkal`sky Kraj we decided to change the 2 letter short name of the region to ZK Zabajkal`skiy Kraj. All QSOs with regions CT and AB will count for ZK automatically (for all dates from june 1991). Exceptions are shown below depending on the different situations of union and deletion of districts. 1. first we will check for the renamed RDA districts. The procedure is simple as we just change the name. This will not cause a change to the number of districts. The names of the following districts were changed (12): CB-13 CB-20 CB-23 KA-06 KA-08 KL-07 MU-05 PM-08 PM-10 PM-11 PM-13 PM-14 2. Automatic replacement. In connection with union of districts and the change of short letters of regions, here we need to replace existing numbers with new numbers. E.g. if You have AB-01 confirmed so You have to change AB-01 to ZK-37 and so on. If You have confirmed districts EV-01, EV-02, EV-03 You have to change them only to one RDA KK-67. Please be careful not to create duplicate numbers. districts with automatic replacement (31): AB-01 ZK-37 AB-02 ZK-38 AB-03 ZK-39 EV-01 KK-67 EV-02 KK-67 EV-03 KK-67 KP-01 PM-52 KP-02 PM-53 KP-03 PM-54 KP-04 PM-55 KP-05 PM-56 KP-06 PM-57 KP-07 PM-58 KY-01 KT-11 KY-02 KT-12 KY-03 KT-13 KY-04 KT-14 MO-57 MO-01 MO-61 MO-09 MO-91 MO-49 TM-01 KK-65 TM-02 KK-66 TM-03 KK-65 TM-04 KK-65 TM-05 KK-65 UO-01 IR-48 UO-02 IR-49 UO-03 IR-50 UO-04 IR-51 UO-05 IR-52 UO-06 IR-53 3. New RDA districts, created out of already existing districts in connection with separation in 2 separate administrative districts. Let's take a simple example: Till 01.03.2010 existed the district AL-36 Loktevsky area /incl. Gornyak/. After 01.03.2010 a separation of the Loktevsky area and the city Gornyak took part, the RDA number AL-36 stayed with Loktevsky area while the city Gornyak received the number AL-74. All contacts till 01.03.2010 are valid for AL-36 no matter from where they took place (from the area or the city), after that date all QSOs with the area are valid for AL-36 and all QSOs with the city are valid for AL-74, so AL-74 is valid only after 01.03.2010. There may be given out RDA number which earlier existed. separated districts (7): till 01.03.2010 OLD NEW AL-36 -> AL-36 AL-74 BR-31 -> BR-31 BR-36 IR-17 -> IR-17 IR-47 IV-14 -> IV-14 IV-31 KM-02 -> KM-02 KM-15 NO-01 -> NO-01 NO-02 SV-59 -> SV-59 SV-76 4. Completely new districts. All QSOs with the following RDA are valid only from 01.03.2010. New districts (36): CB-56 KA-24 KA-25 KA-26 KC-11 KC-12 KE-21 KE-27 KE-49 KE-50 KE-51 KI-48 KM-16 KO-21 KR-65 KT-15 MO-03 MO-04 MO-14 MO-23 MO-26 MO-28 MO-50 MO-52 MU-21 NS-47 PM-51 SA-57 SA-58 SL-27 SV-77 SV-78 TL-37 TN-30 UL-28 YA-40 5. Deleted districts (because of union with existing districts). Here two existing districts were united into one district with now common administration. So You have to change all QSOs for the old district, e.g. AR-08, to the new district, in this case AR-23. If You have already confirmed AR-23 so You will just loose AR-08. If You haven't confirmed AR-23 but AR-08 so the QSO with AR-08 now confirms AR-23, no matter for which date the QSO is. United districts (140): AR-08 AR-23 AR-27 AR-26 CB-11 CB-34 CB-16 CB-39 CB-17 CB-40 CB-18 CB-41 CB-24 CB-49 CK-03 CK-02 CK-09 CK-05 CN-08 CN-20 CN-09 CN-22 HM-02 HM-15 IR-07 IR-20 IR-08 IR-22 IR-10 IR-34 IR-12 IR-37 IR-16 IR-41 IR-18 IR-45 IV-08 IV-27 KA-01 KA-03 KA-04 KA-05 KE-17 KE-30 KE-26 KE-40 KE-36 KE-22 KK-13 KK-54 KK-14 KK-59 KL-09 KL-19 KR-14 KR-28 KR-17 KR-33 KR-18 KR-34 KR-19 KR-40 KR-20 KR-43 KR-21 KR-52 KR-22 KR-57 KR-23 KR-58 KR-25 KR-12 KT-02 KT-06 LO-01 LO-20 LO-02 LO-22 LO-03 LO-23 LO-04 LO-24 LO-05 LO-25 LO-06 LO-26 LO-07 LO-26 LO-08 LO-27 LO-09 LO-28 LO-10 LO-29 LO-11 LO-31 LO-12 LO-20 LO-13 LO-32 LO-14 LO-33 LO-15 LO-34 LO-17 LO-35 LO-18 LO-36 LO-19 LO-28 LO-37 LO-23 NN-10 NN-22 NN-11 NN-23 NN-12 NN-26 NN-13 NN-36 NN-14 NN-38 NN-16 NN-45 NN-17 NN-46 NN-18 NN-50 NS-41 NS-12 NS-44 NS-24 NS-46 NS-33 NV-02 NV-05 NV-03 NV-20 OB-08 OB-17 OB-12 OB-31 OB-15 OB-46 OB-16 OB-51 OB-52 OB-45 OM-06 OM-16 OM-07 OM-17 OM-08 OM-25 OM-09 OM-37 OM-10 OM-39 PE-05 PE-18 PE-07 PE-33 PE-21 PE-32 PK-23 PK-10 PK-33 PK-14 PM-18 PM-49 RO-11 RO-27 RO-17 RO-41 RO-18 RO-45 RO-21 RO-57 SA-07 SA-21 SA-08 SA-23 SA-09 SA-24 SA-10 SA-26 SA-11 SA-34 SA-12 SA-38 SA-13 SA-43 SA-14 SA-45 SA-15 SA-48 SA-16 SA-55 SA-18 SA-56 SL-02 SL-10 SL-03 SL-12 SL-04 SL-13 SL-05 SL-16 SL-06 SL-18 SL-07 SL-19 SL-08 SL-23 SL-09 SL-24 ST-10 ST-28 SP-11 SP-17 SP-15 SP-18 SV-73 SV-16 TL-06 TL-14 TL-07 TL-17 TL-09 TL-21 TL-10 TL-24 TL-12 TL-33 TL-13 TL-35 UL-05 UL-08 VL-04 VL-13 VL-05 VL-14 VL-08 VL-20 VL-10 VL-25 VL-11 VL-27 VO-02 VO-09 VO-03 VO-21 VR-08 VR-26 VR-10 VR-31 VR-11 VR-35 VR-12 VR-39 YA-02 YA-21 YA-03 YA-39 YA-04 YA-25 YA-05 YA-36 YR-08 YR-24 YR-10 YR-26 YR-11 YR-27 ZK-05 ZK-11 ZK-06 ZK-12 ZK-07 ZK-18 6. Correction of already submitted RDA to the RDA award committee. The lists of already confirmed districts will be corrected by hand and resent to You. As this will take some time we suggest You to recorrect Your list Yourself and send it for verification to the following email address: rx3rc@rdaward.org. For an accurate display of results in the RDA toplist we will include only converted lists with all corrections derived from the changes as of 01.03.2010. We hope for Your understanding. The RDA list hasn't changed since 2002, now the new list reflects the most accurate list of current existing districts in Russia.