DXCC Program Resources: Entities, Prefixes & Awards
Access essential tools and official lists for identifying DXCC entities, tracking progress, and achieving amateur radio DXCC awards.
The DXCC (DX Century Club) program, sponsored by the ARRL, is a prestigious amateur radio operating award recognizing confirmed contacts with 100 or more distinct DX entities. This section provides essential resources for pursuing DXCC, including official entity lists, call sign prefix allocations, and mapping tools. Users can find the current ARRL DXCC Country List in various formats, historical lists, and specialized resources like Russian Oblast prefixes. These tools are crucial for identifying valid DX entities and planning operations to achieve DXCC awards.
Resources include the QRZ.com Country Atlas and F5LEN Maps for visual identification of DX entities and beam headings. Official CQ Magazine Countries and Zone List are available for download. Additionally, specialized tools offer custom DXCC lists based on your grid square, providing accurate beam headings. Access detailed International Call Sign Prefix Allocations to correctly identify and log contacts for DXCC credit, ensuring accurate submission for awards.
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A large collection of maps of each dxcc country with general information, banknotes and coins, satellite images, flags and national information where available by SP6NVK -
This web site represents the home of "Country Files", databases of entities (countries), prefixes and callsigns that are used by amateur radio logging software. There are three "flavors" of country files: CTY.DAT used by contest logging software such as CT, N1MM, NA, TR and Writelog DX4WIN.CTY used by the DX4WIN logging software WPXLOC.DAT used by packet cluster software such as AR-Cluster, CC Cluster and DX Spider maintained by Jim Reisert, AD1C -
Complete DXCC list in a plain text file updated by ARRL -
Table of allocation of international Call Sign series -
A selection of useful tables including DXCC country list , ITU countries, ISO country lists, by VE7CA -
DX Century Club First post-WWII Countries List -
NG3K DXCC Entity tables by prefix by ng3k -
You can have your persolal DXCC country list with correct beam heading calculated on you grid square location -
The website provides a free to download large Jpeg DXCC map with amateur radio prefixes and CQ zones. It is a valuable resource for radio amateurs looking to identify DX entities and zones for their operations. -
The current ARRL DXCC country list by Bill Brelsford, K2DI -
Search for call sign and display maps and dxcc info -
ARRL web site International Call-Sign Prefix Allocations -
Official, and updated CQ Magazine Countries and Zone List available in various formats, text, word and excel formats. -
DX Atlas - DX Locations of the World by QRZ.com -
Russian callsign prefix series: RAA-RZZ, UAA-UIZ, includs Amateur callsign system in Russia -
Collection of flags of all DXCC entities. They are based on image sizes of precisely 47 x 28 pixels. -
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