TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
During the scoring procedure for contests we got aware of a problem which is
unique to Turkey.
As widely known, in the Turkish Regulations the call-area 0 has been assigned
to the islands. On the other hand there are islands which are eligible for the
IOTA, besides some islands which are not (the islands in the Marmara Sea like
Heybeli, Buyuk, Sivri, Kinali, Burgaz, Avsa, Marmara).
The problem is rather the location of the islands which mostly are in Asia. But
all of the most commonly used contest-scoring and logging software count them
automatically to Europe which causes a wrong sort of scoring, resulting in a
unfair score for all stations which have worked any station located in the
Turkish islands, particularly those in Asia.
All islands with the exception of the so called IOTA-Saros-Group (EU-186) are
in Asia.
In the CQ-WW-SSB Contest of 2002 the only participant from a Turkish island has
been TA1E/0 which was located in Bozcaada, IOTA-AS-099, clearly a location in
Asia. Therefore we ask the CQ-Contest Commitee to take this into account in
favour of the stations having worked this particular one, if possible.
A definitive solution for the problem might be counting all TA0-Calls generally
as Asia for contests and making a modification to the scoring software for
accomplishing this. This is not unfair as in majority the Asian islands are
activated during contests and there is no other alternative for solving the
problem (it is impossible to assign distinctive Prefixes for the exceptions).
The other fact is that the vast majority of the islands are located in Asia.
In terms of IOTA-Contests there is no problem as scoring (and contest report
exchange) incorporates the reference-number of the island.
I would like to ask all receipents of this mail to convey their thoughts about
my proposal as soon as possible to me. If this solution is accepted, the next
step has to be done by the vendors of the popular logging softwares.
73!
Aziz SASA,TA1EPresident TRAC
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