[UK-CONTEST] Re Contest results/publishing etc

[Contesting]

Quoting from the message of Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:18:33 +0100 from "Phil
Cooper" <pcooper at guernsey.net> :


> How do we get new blood into the contesting fraternity? Well, taking 11
> months to produce results from IOTA doesn't help in this age of instant
> gratification! 

Just a small correction Phil.

The 2005 IOTA Results have been on the HFCC Website since
January.......I will ignore the statement that 'Results will be sent to
all participants who provide an e-mail address' as that has failed to be
implemented as far as my Mailbox is concerned.

My Gripe is that come June 14th - ie: Five Months after publication I
have not receieved my Certificate. A posting to the IOTA yahoodlegroup
elicited no response, although I have now stirred the matter up with the
powers that be, but I do not know whether *anyone* has received theirs
as yet. 
If the answer is in the negative then it is throwing a very bad light
onto what is supposedly the RSGB's Premier International Contest.
I just hope that the eventual excuse is not along the lines of 'The RSGB
President has lost his pen' as when I was chatting to Sylvia at HQ about
other matters in late April, She had managed to get him to sign the IARU
ones and at that time had not even seen the IOTA ones.

73 Graham M5AAV

PS Thanks for the QSO in ANARTS Phil - GU was actually a new DXCC for me on 20

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