[UK-CONTEST] IOTA 2011

[Bernie McIntosh (GM4WZG)]

Operated from home this weekend. Give or take some time for meals, and an
overnight pause for some sleep (I know, I'll never be a proper hard core
contester will I ?) I tried to do the full 24 hours.  Generally poor condx
and I thought there was less participation than in recent years. Some more
distant islands were workable though from a simple station like mine and I
was pleased overall with the multiplier count considering that I was 100w
with a stealth wire antenna. In fact it's a good demonstration of what can
be done with CW from a suburban house with no real scope for proper
antennas, particularly for the lower bands.  In fact IOTA is a great contest
for those with simple stations because its more about hunting around for the
mults than just using a big station to run. 


Grateful thanks to all those island activators who make this event possible.
Thanks also of course to the organisers/adjudicators.

Its great to be a fifteen point station even in the common EU-005.
Definitely helps in getting interest, often from other 15 point stations.

Unchecked score for the CW 24 hour single op assisted low power section is
below.

 Band    QSOs    Pts  IOTA
   3.5     100     864   42
     7     180    1224   51
    14     258    1650   65
    21      44     540   33
    28      26     210   11
 Total     608    4488  202
Score: 906,576


Bernie
GM4WZG