[UK-CONTEST] IOTA

[Dave Sergeant]

On 5 Aug 2010 at 21:12, Gordon Brown wrote:

> It seems that everyone so far has missed one very good reason why more
> stations do not enter IOTA.  It is a contest only for stations that can
> put out a decent signal on all bands and not for the likes of me who can
> be competitive on 160, 80 and 40 meters but have no means of putting up
> a beam for the higher frequencies.  A contest for the elite.  If there
> were sections for single band entries I am sure more people would be
> interested in joining in - me for one. 73 Gordon G3MZV & G1N
> 

Have been watching this thread but not commented yet....

Not sure about a single band entry, there are already far too many 
categories in IOTA which makes the results tables very confusing. As 
you know I enter the QRP section and tend to do pretty well in that, so 
that suits me. All this talk about 'only 100W'...

What I feel some are missing is that most of the success of the IOTA 
contest in recent years has been the fact that anybody can enter and 
work everybody. There are far too many contests around where you can 
only work say Italians, and I certainly don't care much for those which 
just fill the bands up for 24 hours with little to offer to the casual 
contester. I don't follow the IOTA program myself but do enjoy working 
the island stations in this contest. If I weren't in the UK, allegedly 
according to the rules on an 'island', I would not be particularly 
interested in entering the contest if all I could work were islands, 
and on QRP it would reduce my score enormously.

Play around with the scoring advantages if you want, but don't destroy 
this excellent event by excluding most of the rest of the world.

73 Dave G3YMC

http://www.davesergeant.com