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- 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?
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- C91VM's QSLs Update
- Following our posting of the 7 November news item C91VM has amended his QSLing policy on QRZ.com to remove the obligatory charge of USD 5 for QSL cards and has indicated that he will follow normal IOTA practice and reply direct to cards received direct in timely fashion. In response we have lifted the bar on acceptance of his cards subject to their meeting normal requirements. The IOTA Committee wishes to recommend to DXpeditioners wider adoption of the IARU Region 1 Code of Practice on QSLing - this can be downloaded from the Programme Information screen.
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- Rejection of Credit for C91VM's QSLs
- For those wishing to claim credit for October 2009 contacts with C91VM (AF-061, AF-066, AF-088), please be aware that, in response to the operator's current published QSL policy, these three operations will not be accepted for IOTA accreditation. Clarification is awaited from the operator that a policy change will be made immediately to the effect that payment of USD 5 is not obligatory and that cards sent direct with sufficient return postage will be answered direct in a timely fashion. A prompt amendment to the policy notice on QRZ.com is therefore required if accreditation is to be reconsidered.
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- New IOTA Checkpoint Appointments
- We are pleased to be able to announce the appointment in recent weeks of two new checkpoints. Luciano Sampaio de Souza, PT7WA, has agreed to take over from Dan, W4DKS, checkpoint duties for Brazil, and Alan Jubb, 5B4AHJ, has agreed to assume checkpoint responsibility for Cyprus, Israel and Turkey, previously within the checkpoint area of Robert BRS-8841. Registrants in the countries affected are asked to note the new appointments. The addresses of Luciano and Alan are correct on QRZ.com. We welcome them both on to the team which now numbers 21 checkpoints.
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- IOTA NEWS bulletin 17 October 2009
- The latest IOTA News, listing recently validated operations, has been uploaded to G3KMA's website at www.g3kma.dsl.pipex.com.
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- IOTA NEWS bulletin 31 July 2009
- G3KMA's website at www.g3kma.dsl.pipex.com is now back in service with the latest IOTA News, listing recently validated operations.
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- Address Problems
- For the time being please use IOTA_hq@rsgb.org.uk instead of IOTA.hq@rsgb.org.uk in mail to HQ. We have found that emails addressed to IOTA.hq@rsgb.org.uk have, possibly over a period of time, not been received at HQ. We are investigating and hope to revert to the original address shortly if possible. G3KMA's personal website has similarly suffered a server problem and is out of action at the moment. We hope normal service will be resumed soon.
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- 2009 Honour Roll and Annual Listings
- The 2009 Honour Roll and other annual listings have been uploaded to the website. See the Programme Information screen. The last date for emailing submissions and forwarding cards to checkpoints for the 2010 performance tables has been brought forward one day to 31 January 2010. Only scores that have been updated since February 2005 will be shown.
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- A New IOTA Directory
- A new edition of the IOTA Directory celebrating 45 years of IOTA has been published and is available from RSGB HQ (see www.rsgbshop.org or telephone Sales at +44 (0)1234 832700). This 128 page edition features an historical review, the current year's Honour Roll and other performance tables, the latest IOTA island listings, DXpedition stories, the Most Wanted List, and articles on how to get started in IOTA. It is a 'must have' for anyone seriously interested in the programme.
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- Resumption of service from RSGB HQ
- The RSGB reports a resumption of service to the IOTA community with immediate effect. The new IOTA Coordinator is Carlos Eavis, G3VHF. Outstanding Plaques and Trophies will be in the post in the next few days.
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- IOTA Contest 2008 Credits
- We are pleased to announce that we can now accept QSOs made in the 2008 IOTA contest for credit without QSL Cards.
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- Interruption of service from RSGB HQ
- The RSGB regrets that as the result of the sudden resignation of the IOTA Coordinator at HQ there will be an interruption in its service to the IOTA community pending the filling of the post. This means that there will be a delay, possibly as long as a month, in the issue of certificates, Plaques and Trophies and in the handling of emails addressed to iota.hq@rsgb.org.uk. A notice will be posted when normal service resumes.
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