[UK-CONTEST] RSGB IOTA Contest

[Paul O'Kane]

The 15th RSGB IOTA Contest takes place from 12:00 UTC
Saturday 28th July to 11:59 UTC Sunday 29th.

Rules at www.contesting.co.uk/hfcc/rules/riota.shtml

SDI supports SO entries.  V13.25 runs on any Windows
PC and is free from www.ei5di.com/sd/sdisetup.exe.

SDI is a dedicated logger for the IOTA contest. It's
not supported by SD.

Work everyone on the five contest bands from 80m to
10m.  Exchange 59(9) + serial.  Island stations
also send their IOTA reference and, in general, are
worth 5 times as many points as non-island stations.
This means, for example, it's better to work 35 island
stations per hour than others at 150 per hour.

I've made up an IOTA reference file, IOTA07.LST,
listing Callsigns and IOTA references for announced
island operations.  If you use the LOAD command to
load IOTA07, SDI will auto-fill IOTA references on
a callsign match.  You can get this from
www.ei5di.com/sd/iota07.zip.  If you normally use
your own .LST file, add the contents of IOTA07.LST
to your file - before the contest.

IOTA07.LST can be used, without the auto-fill facility,
by other loggers.

After the contest, use SDICHECK (included with SDI)
to prepare your Cabrillo .LOG file.  Email it, as an
attached file, to iota.logs at rsgbhfcc.org.

Please mention SDI in your Cabrillo soapbox comments.

73,
Paul EI5DI