IOTA News
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- 2013 Honour Roll and Annual Listings Posted
- The 2013 Honour Roll and Annual Listings are now posted on G3KMA's website at http://www.g3kma.dsl.pipex.com. They will be posted on this website next week when the IT Team have time.
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- Change to UK Checkpoint
- With effect from 1 May 2013 Tony Ritchie, G4VMX will be stepping down as checkpoint for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and all British SWLs. We are grateful to Tony for his help and support and wish him the very best on his retirement from checkpoint duties. In Tony's place we welcome Bob Barden, MD0CCE who has agreed to take over responsibility for this checkpoint area. Bob’s address is correct on QRZ.com. There will be no other change to UK checkpoints.
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- Operations Approved for IOTA Credit
- The following operations in the period February/March 2013 have provided acceptable validation and are therefore approved for IOTA credit: HK0/F6BFH (NA-033 & NA-049), T47RRC (NA-086), VY0/VE3VID (NA-174), T46RRC (NA-204), T48RRC (NA-218) and HK1/F6BFH (SA-040).
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- Operations Approved for IOTA Credit
- The following operations in the period October 2012/January 2013 have provided acceptable validation and are therefore approved for IOTA credit: RA4HKM/0 (AS-025), C6AVA (NA-048 & NA-054), YB4IR/5 (OC-075), L22D (SA-022) and LU6W (SA-096). SA-096 is now confirmed as a valid IOTA group.
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- IOTA at Visalia Convention
- The 18th annual IOTA Dinner will be held in conjunction with the 64th annual Visalia International DX Convention on Friday, 19 April 2013, in the San Joaquin Room of the Visalia Conference Center, Downtown Visalia, 303 East Acequia, Visalia, CA. Please note change of Convention site. The dinner will be served buffet style and will be followed with presentations by Rick K6VVA and Don G3XTT. For full details go to http://www.dxconvention.com/pages/dinners-iota.html.
Activations expected now
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.
| Ref. No. | From | To | Callsign: |
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| AS-013 | 13 May 2013 | 26 May 2013 | 8Q7EJ |
| AS-019 | 1 Nov 2011 | 1 Nov 2014 | 9V1RM |
| AS-042 | 25 Mar 2013 | 1 Oct 2014 | RV3EFH/0 |
| AS-105 | 15 Feb 2013 | 28 Feb 2020 | HL1VAU/2 |
| EU-001 | 10 May 2013 | 20 May 2013 | SX5KL |
| EU-001 | 10 May 2013 | 20 May 2013 | SX5KL |
| EU-013 | 16 May 2013 | 19 May 2013 | MJ/OT1S |
| EU-023 | 18 May 2013 | 5 Jun 2013 | 9H3JN |
| EU-039 | 18 May 2013 | 20 May 2013 | TM0AI |
| EU-064 | 18 May 2013 | 20 May 2013 | F6KUF/P |
| EU-084 | 1 May 2013 | 16 Jun 2013 | SM0MPV/5 |
| EU-095 | 15 May 2013 | 22 May 2013 | TM5FI |
| EU-125 | 17 May 2013 | 21 May 2013 | OZ1RDP |
| EU-172 | 18 May 2013 | 24 May 2013 | OU1RAEM |
| EU-172 | 19 May 2013 | 25 May 2013 | OZ/OO4O |
| NA-002 | 16 May 2013 | 11 Jun 2013 | VP5/W5CW |
| OC-013 | 7 May 2013 | 27 May 2013 | E51AGY |
| OC-208 | 16 May 2013 | 19 May 2013 | YB8P |
Latest IOTA DX Spots
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.
| Time: | Callsign: | Frequency: | Comment: | Spotted by: | IOTA Ref: |
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| 15 mins. ago. | 9V1KK | 28015.8 | DEEP QSB | JF1WQC | AS-019 |
| 47 mins. ago. | E51AND | 21054 | IOTA OC-013 QRT? | K6III | OC-013 |
| 57 mins. ago. | 9V1KK | 21016 | CQ CQ CQ | BD1IIJ | AS-019 |
RSGB and the IOTA Committee cannot take any responsibility for the accuracy of data derived from the DX Cluster service.
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