RSGB ISLANDS ON THE AIR

• • 2009, a Successful Year for IOTA
  • As the year changed, IOTA Online, introduced in August 2007, saw another milestone passed as the 7000th person registered for access to the application web facility. Increasing numbers are now rushing to file a record online. Compared with calendar year 2008, 2009 enjoyed a 20.4% increase in credits confirmed by checkpoints and an overall 10.8% rise in applications processed. Are you in those figures?
  • G3KMA, 1 Jan 2010
• • Operations Approved for IOTA Credit
  • The following three operations, all of which took place in either October or November 2009, have provided acceptable validation material and are therefore approved for IOTA credit: H44MY (OC-149), P29VCX (OC-116) and P29VCX (OC-240).
  • G3KMA, 1 Jan 2010
• • Happy New Year 2010
  • To all our readers, a Happy New Year! We hope that, with improving band conditions and lots of island activity, you will have great success with making those island contacts. Don't forget, if you wish to update your published IOTA score, you have until 31 January to do so. Please remember to print off the Mailing List, mentioned in the application procedures, and include it with your cards when you send them to your checkpoint. Remember also that cards without a printed island name are not valid for IOTA.
  • G3KMA, 1 Jan 2010
• • Operations Approved for IOTA Credit
  • The following operations, all of which took place in the September to November 2009 time-frame, have provided acceptable validation material and are therefore approved for IOTA credit: FT5GA (AF-011), XV7RRC (AS-162), P29VSR (OC-008), P29VCX (OC-102), P29NI (OC-205), P29VLR (OC-231), PW6C (SA-062), PW2IO SA-071) and PW2TA (SA-071). Most of these operations were in the "rare" category, defined as credited to less than 15% of record-holders and therefore requiring validation; others were validated voluntarily. For the majority of IOTA operations validation is not required unless there is a challenge. See Rules, Section F for fuller guidance.
  • G3KMA, 7 Dec 2009
• • 2010 Honour Roll and Annual Listings Deadline
  • The deadline for the 2010 Honour Roll and Annual Listings is approaching fast. Applications or updates submitted online on or before 31 January 2010 will count for the 2010 tables so long as the supporting cards sent to checkpoints are postmarked no later than that date. Updates postmarked after 31 January will be processed in the normal way but scores will be held over to the following year's listing. Note that the deadline for this year and future years is one day earlier (31 January) than previously. To remain listed in the performance tables participants will need to have updated at least once since February 2005. Some people have asked when they will be able to claim credit online for QSOs made in the 2009 IOTA Contest. We will announce this on the site as soon as we can but, at the time of writing, the software team have still to receive the final adjudicated data from the contest committee. Then they will have to perform some additional checks on the data, and possibly modify the code that matches claimed QSOs to the database. This is likely to take until Easter 2010.
  • G3KMA, 24 Nov 2009

The following activations have been notified to us, or to services such as 425 DX News, as being expected to be active now. For more details, click on the activation's callsign, or click on a reference number for more information about the island group.

The latest DX Cluster spots which appear to have an IOTA reference number in the comments field are shown below. If the callsign appears as a link, there is an entry in the notified activations database for this callsign on this island group. Click the link to find out more.

RSGB and the IOTA Committee cannot take any responsibility for the accuracy of data derived from the DX Cluster service.

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