[UK-CONTEST] IOTA 2008

Thu Jul 31 03:46:02 EDT 2008

Hi Tammie

I agree with Ken G0ORH - SuperDuper is a very good contest logging 
programme for IOTA (and just about every other contest).
Its also very easy to use (must be for this non-techy to understand 
it!).
It is freeware, so do try downloading it and have a play - the post-
contest routines are very instructive too.
As for the contest, some very good activity this year, some enormous 
signals (GM7V and OH0X come to mind) - and good numbers of UK stations 
active.
My particular congrats go to the ops at EJ0GI and EI0W for pulling me 
out of the noise on 20 thru 10m - good ops, good ears and nothing wrong 
with your receivers - tnx fellas!
73 de Cris
GM4FAM

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>Message: 8
>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:24:12 +0100
>From: Ken Chandler <g0orh at sky.com>
>Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] IOTA 08
>To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
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>I think Tammie really needs better advice from this group. Never used 
HRD to
>cannot comment on it, but I think Tammie ought to be using a proper 
contest
>software like SD from EI5DI or N1MM, N1MM is probably a bit more 
complex,
>unlike SD which is really plug and play, very easy to set-up and will 
do
>everything that's needed. SD, or SDI for IOTA, will import into other
>logging programs using an adif file. 
>SDI from EI5DI is an "IOTA contest only" program, it will not produce 
logs
>for other world contests.
>SD will handle contests of virtually every known contest listed....
>
> 
>ken..G0ORH 
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
>[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave Sergeant
>Sent: 30 July 2008 13:10
>To: uk-contest at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] IOTA 08
>
>A Cabrillo line for the IOTA contest should be of the form:
>
>QSO: 14021 CW 2008-07-26 1212 G3YMC         599  005 EU-005 
5P5X        
>  599  019 EU-029
>(one one line, not wrapped like this..).
>
>The number of spaces is irrelevant but you need all this information 
in the
>correct order. Plus a number of standard header lines at the 
beginning.
>Anything different and the robot won't be able to read it.
>
>Ham Radio Deluxe, like any station logging program, is NOT a contest 
logger
>and is unlikely to produce a correctly formatted Cabrillo log. 
>You should use a seperate contest program during the contest then 
produce an
>ADIF file to import into your station log.
>
>I imagine N1MM produces a correct Cabrillo output for IOTA. But for a 
single
>operator station Paul EI5DI's SD/SDI do an excellent job of producing 
the
>correct entry file for most contests.
>
>73 Dave G3YMC
>
>On 30 Jul 2008 at 12:10, Tammie Evans wrote:
>
>> Hello once again, I submitted my log and had the auto-robot error 
>> message come back... upon checking why it wasn't space properly... 
ie 
>> probably entirely my fault due to mis-entry in logging programme - 
how 
>> should I have entered signal reports, island numbers?
>> 
>> I was using Ham Radio Deluxe (am about to change to Ham Logger and 
>> N1MM) and just put something like
>> 
>> Sent - 5901 EU005   Received 5929 AS004
>> 
>> In HRD there are two boxes each for send and receive... maybe it's 
my 
>> mis-understanding of how to enter the number(s)/letter(s) in the 
boxes?
>> 
>> Have now successfully re-entered the log and it was all okay but 
just 
>> wondering what I've done wrong in case in the future I mis-enter 
>> information into one of the new logging programmes?
>> 
>> 73 Tammie M3ENF
>
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>Message: 9
>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:11:07 +0000
>From: Steve Campbell <stevegm4oss at hotmail.com>
>Subject: [UK-CONTEST] N1MM glitch
>To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
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>HiI've tried posting this on N1MM reflector but responses so far have 
not resolved this problem.The issue is when using CW, whether full or 
semi break in,after about a second or less after keying stopped the rig 
would gointo TX for a second and then back to RX. This happened all the 
timeand severely impacted run stn because you always missed the first 
partof calling stn call sign. so much so we had to swap over main & 
mult stn. I've tried set up back at home without PC networking and the 
glitch is still there.The set up is no different from last year'S IOTA 
and we didn't haveany issues (I believe)then.Set up is IC756 Pro2, 
MicroHam Keyer,(rig & keying from 1 USB port) laptop XP with N1MM ver 
8.6.4Can any of you guros help out with this? or is it something in the 
setup not quite correct?
>P.S. I'm reasonably new to N1MM as I am a fan of SD & SDI - but 
without networking capability it's not much good for IOTA.
>73's Steve GM4OSS(Part of IOTA 2008 team GI3YS Low Power, Rathlin 
Island, N. Ireland, EU122. Raw score 1042 QSOs - 210 Mults - 1,466,010 
points)
>73's de Steve - GM4OSS
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