Just a short note to apologise for the late arrival of the 2011 IOTA Contest results, as I am getting quite a few enquiries. Jim MM0BQI and I had completed the bulk of the work by late September, but
I am pleased to announce that the final results of the 2011 IOTA Contest now appear on the web at http://www.iotacontest.com/contest/iota/2011/finalScore.php There will soon also be a link via the RS
The revised rules for the 2012 IOTA Contest now appear on the RSGB Contest Committee website at: http://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2012/riota.shtml There have a few rule changes this year, following las
Further to my recent email, we have had a quick rethink on scoring for contacts with non-island (world) stations, as it quickly became apparent from feedback that we had missed a trick here, for whic
Rudy Very strange post. "Illegal" - that's a strong term and quite incorrect. Who's law are we invoking here? Personally, I wish more entrants would do a sanity check before sending their log. And ma
A reminder that the deadline for logs is this coming weekend. We are still awaiting some quite major logs, so please do ensure you get them to us in time for the deadline or, if you need an extension
This is just to say that provisional results for the 2012 IOTA Contest were made available last week, and all entrants should have received an email from the robot with a link to the results and to t
Most broken call a few years ago in the IOTA contest was YO7HHI Don G3XTT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com
I suspect the answer is actually quite mundane. When the 3:1 penalty was first introduced, log checking was still on paper and only a small proportion of errors were actually detected (in any case, w
CEPT has nothing to do with it - for operations under the CEPT agreement, the operator must be in the same country as the transmitter. The difficulty here is that rules for remote operation vary from
Just for the record, G3ZHL is a good friend of mine and doesn't operate CW or 160m 73 Don G3XTT _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http:
I need to correct my earlier posting regarding my friend G3ZHL - it appears he did take part in CQWW CW, using the CW decoder in his K3. *Don,* *Yes, I was active on 29th and 30th November, but just
I will be in LZ and YO in the week prior to CQWW Phone and just wondering if any team in that part of the world is looking for an extra operator for the contest? Thanks, 73 Don G3XTT ________________
With respect Jeff, that's simply not true. From the WSJT site: *The FT4 Protocol for Digital Contesting* * FT4 is an experimental digital mode designed specifically for radiocontesting. Like FT8, it