The IOTA Contest takes place over the weekend of 30/31 July (1200-1200). All
are invited to participate. Everyone works everyone, but island contacts are
worth significantly more points and islands are also multipliers. The contest
is always popular, with many expeditions to semi-rare and rare islands,
allowing participants to increase their score towards the wide range of IOTA
awards. To facilitate this, we are working towards allowing contacts made in
the contest (provided both logs have been received by the adjudicators) to
count towards IOTA awards without the need for QSL cards.
The rules are essentially unchanged from last year except that the SWL section
has been dropped, as a result of significantly lower participation in recent
years. The rules do, however, spell out more clearly than before the format for
Cabrillo logs which, while not mandatory, are preferred. Nevertheless, we are
retaining the two-stage submission process introduced last year, whereby you
receive a confirmation e-mail for your log asking you to go to a web page to
validate your category, etc. This is simply because, if you use a logging
program which doesn't overtly support the IOTA contest, your header information
may not be sufficient to give us all the data we need. The process should not
take more than a minute or so.
The full rules can be found at:http://www.contesting.co.uk/hfcc/iota.shtml or
via www.rsgbhfcc.org
We look forward to your participation in the contest and receiving your log in
due course. Photos and write-ups are also appreciated for the web site - to
either of the e-mail addresses below please.
Any questions can be addressed to iotacontest@rsgbhfcc.org or directly to me.
73 Don G3XTT
IOTA Contest Manager
don@g3xtt.com
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