[UK-CONTEST] IOTA Contest

[Donald Field]

IOTA Contest 2002 (1200 27 July to 1200 28 July)

Just a over a couple of weeks now until this year's IOTA Contest. And,
judging by the announcemenents in the bulletins and on the reflectors, there
will be a huge ammount of island activity; plenty of multipliers for the
serious contesters, plenty of IOTA counters for the IOTA enthusiasts. It
looks like being the best IOTA Contest yet!

Most of you will have seen the write-up and results from last year (if not,
they are of course on the RSGB HF Committee Web page - www.rsgbhfcc.org ).
The main rule changes this year are in the rules regarding island
DXpeditions, the introduction of a World multi-op category (previously, only
island stations could participate multi-op) and the introduction of a
100-watt option for all entrants.

When you submit your logs, do please ensure that the cover sheet makes clear
which section and category you are entering (especially, make clear whether
12- or 24-hour, whether 100-watt or high-power and whether CW, SSB or
multimode. Otherwise you will be automatically classified as 24-hour and/or
multimode and/or high-power). Advice on how to configure the most popular
logging programs for use in the contest has been posted on the Contests
Committee Web page (see above). There were particular problems last year
with entrants who had used CT. Under some configurations, the .LOG file did
not contain the received serial number (whereas the .ALL file did). Please
check that your log contains all the necessary information. Electronic logs
are preferred, ideally to the new address of iota.logs at rsgbhfcc.org Even if
you only make a few QSOs, please send a log - all logs are entered in the
master database for checking purposes. We hope to improve the collection of
logs this year and I am especially grateful to Trey N5KO for working with us
on this, as he has previously done for both CQ and ARRL.

73 Don Field G3XTT
IOTA Contest Manager
g3xtt at lineone.net (also iotacontest at rsgbhfcc.org )