[UK-CONTEST] IOTA

[Chris G3SJJ]

  I agree with you Dez. Doing a single low band in mid-summer isn't really effective use of time. As you say, the IOTA Conrtest doesn't cover 160 and 
in any case SS to SR is only about 8 hours. A 33ft vertical for 40m is a half wave on 20m and will work extremely well. It is a 3/4 on 15m with higher 
angle radiation so good for Eu which as you point out is accounts for much of the activity and multipliers. Seems to me doing the 12 hour section on 
those 3 bands would be a better choice, but again there is plenty of activity over the whole 24 hours.

73 Chris G3SJJ




On 06/08/2010 09:17, Dez Watson wrote:
> I disagree Gordon.
>
>     1. I think the figures tend to suggests that year-on-year more
>        stations are entering IOTA.
>     2. The majority of entrants (IOTA&  non-IOTA) seem to be within
>        Europe; I feel competitive with a 100w to multiband vertical.
>     3. There is no 160m in the IOTA contest.
>
> Surely it is far from being a contest for the 'elite', rather a good
> opportunity for little pistols to put in competitive scores with so many
> EU multipliers available?
>
> I find in IOTA there is enough activity to keep me occupied for the full
> 24 hours - unlike BERU, for example, which has it's own special
> attraction for masochists!
>
> 73 Dez
> G0DEZ&  M6W
>
> 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