Airport Extreme 802.11n reports incorrect Locale and Country Code

I have just replaced my MacBook Pro CoreDuo's Airport Extreme card with a Mac Pro one that gives excellent throughput with 802.11n but, depending upon which channel it connects to the wireless router, System Profiler displays a weird selection of locales and country codes (e.g. locale: RoW, country code X2) .... perhaps this does't matter ... perhaps it does as other threads here report not being able to make a connection when an available channel is supposed not to be available in the incorrectly reported country.
What controls this (incorrect) choice and how can it be fixed?
System Profile of en1:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x88)
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.19)
Locale: RoW
Country Code: X2
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n

AirPort-Guy wrote:
The Locale is programmed into the card. If you bought your Mac Pro in a country other than where you are currently living, and you are using the card that came with it, you could be violating your country's wireless regulations.
Actually this is not entirely correct.
Rather the Mac sets its AirPort country code based upon the first beacon packet containing regulatory domain information received when the Mac starts passively listening to incoming packets after the AirPort interface is enabled.
RoW does stand for "rest of world" and the "X" domains are temporary used ones when searching for regulatory domain information.
So if you're seeing your Mac's AirPort card programmed to a different country code regulatory domain than it should be, it's because someone near you is using an illegal wireless access point/router.

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