[CQ-Contest] Scoring and Classification Problem of TA0-Calls in Contests

[Berkin AYDOGMUS]

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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