The abbreviations and station numbers used for the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany are as follows: CH = 10...19 = (Channel stations of no specified location) SH = 20...22 = Schleswig-Holstein HH = 23...27 = Hamburg MV = 28...29 = Mecklenburg-Vorpommern NS = 30...34 = Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) HB = 35...36 = Bremen SA = 37...39 = Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt) BE = 40...46 = Berlin BR = 47...49 = Brandenburg NW = 50...56 = Nordrhein-Westfalen (Northrhine-westphalia) RP = 57...59 = Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-palatinate) HE = 60...66 = Hessen (Hessia) SL = 67...69 = Saarland TH = 70...72 = Thüringen (Thuringia) SN = 73...79 = Sachsen (Saxony) BW = 80...84 = Baden-Württemberg BY = 85...89 = Bayern (Bavaria) ZZ = 90...99 = (stations of unidentified location) IW = ....... = stations adminstrated by Germany in international waters _OR_ stations in german coastal waters So a station number of 'D-3055' tells you, that the station is located in 'Niedersachsen', and 'D-6038' is located in 'Hessen'. Sometimes the numbers are different from the presumed location, these may be mistakes in my database, or the number refers to the administrative seat of a station. My aim would be to have the correct number for the state where the trans- mitter is located. So there will be some changes from time to time. Station numbers are formed like this - where # means a number 0...9 : D-#### (D-1000 ... D-9999) utility stations D-B### (D-B100 ... D-B999) broadcast stations D-BC## (D-BC10 ... D-BC99) broadcast stations D-BT## (D-BT10 ... D-BT99) television stations D-FM## (D-FM10 ... D-FM99) broadcast stations D-F### (D-F100 ... D-F999) broadcast stations D-T### (D-T200 ... D-T899) transmitter sites The first 2 numbers designate the state of origin.