[UK-CONTEST] R1ANB and IOTA contest bust

[Stewart Rolfe]

--- On Tue, 3/11/09, Paul O'Kane <pokane at ei5di.com> wrote:

> That's the disadvantage of using general-purpose contest
> loggers
> for IOTA :-) SDI fills in any missing zeros.  When you
> edit IOTA
> references, it takes out leading zeros and places the
> cursor
> correctly (at the 5 in EU5) to keep things fast and
> simple.
> 
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
> 

At cross purposes here Paul..... I meant when the G station didn't send an IOTA reference at all, presumably casual 'give away a couple of points' (and very welcome!) folk; nothing to do with missing zeroes.

Dave('YMC) - mainland G is EU005 isn't it? So is it that a G without an IOTA ref is assumed to be EU5/EU005 and the scoring penalises for not filling this in? Presumably someone on the IOW or a Scottish island would be aware and keen enough to make sure the IOTA is sent.

73,
Stewart, GW0ETF

PS...
I *may* need to stand corrected on this one perhaps because several Eu IOTA Qs were also busted due to the IOTA nr not being filled here; and I've just noticed G3PJT (with a big serial number...) was also a busted Q due to lack of EU005 in our log, and he certainly wasn't a casual participant. Maybe it was all down to our op being a bit casual with the exchanges though Gerry and Paul's comments might suggest it's also something to do with the scoring..?