Congrats to Roland ADXB OE-527 for his excellent score and the first place in both General and 24-H Mixed categories. Bill W1-7897, a welcome new entry in our Contest and winner of several SWL Contests, made also an excellent performance with the largest number of QSO, the second place in the General section and the first place in the 24-H and 12-H SSB categories.

It is interesting to compare the first two scores in the General category. Bill W1-7897 made double QSO/HRDs, but Roland with 50% more multipliers won with double total points. This appears to be the right strategy to win this Contest.

Third place for Richard DH2URF, which participated in the previous years with the call OK2-31097/DL. Richard is the first 12-H in the General category, won the 12-H CW category and, last but not least, submitted one of the more correct logs.

Other category winners are our appreciated web-master Stefano I3-2782/VE (24-H CW) and Davor 9A4KJ (12-H Mixed).

Also this year the number of Hams who sent the log has been very high and some SWLs logs had only few rows not covered by the correspondent Ham log. So, like the previous year, the final score has been calculated only with the log’s rows covered by the correspondent Ham log (as station heard or station being worked).

And also this year I spent a lot of time to correct several Ham logs, not in a correct Cabrillo format. In particular the logs compiled with AATest and TR4W (ex TR Log) were almost all not correct. That means almost all the Russian logs. I checked the web site and I found in the Revision History of TR4W that from version 4.141, the Cabrillo output format for RSGB IOTA Contest has been corrected. But the Ham logs compiled with that version were absolutely not correct! Very strange indeed.

As usual you can find following a table with the SWLs showing the better percentages of QSO correct (>70%). The percentages should be also better by counting all the log’s rows.
In particular Tanio JA4-4665/1 should get 89,7% by counting also the QSOs not supported by Ham logs.
In the table does not appear W1-7897 which logged the same station several times, if that station was a rare one. A pretty smart strategy. Of course his log includes a lot of dupes (QSO not correct), but this does not mean that his log was of low level. Indeed, without dupes, he should be included in the table.

I will send a copy of the UBN (Unique-Bad-Not in log) Report with all the log’s rows checked by the software of our great friend Marek SP7DQR to everyone which sent an electronic log. The UBN can be useful if one SWL would like to apply for the IOTA credit, in fact only the QSOs judged OK by the cross-checking software can be claimed for credit.

It is always my great pleasure to join the IOTA Contest and can submit my logs. The conditions might have been a little better than the last year.

Tanio JA4-4665/1

Good contest with many iota stations. See you again friends.

Dusan OK2-9329

Attached is my this year's contest-log.
Is'nt too much this year, hope you do it better. All the best and good luck in the forthcoming contests.

Wolfgang DL-P01-17291

Here I send you my promised log-sheet for the IOTA SWL Contest 2010.
It´s my new record ! ! !
I´m vy happy about that.
I was vy lucky, I hrd agn mni IOTA´s, these are my joker, hi.

See you on the screen and till next time.
Thank you vy much in advance

Roland ADXB OE-527 or OE1-1114

I just send my little log through the website. It is my first contest, I hope I've done everything right. :)
Next year I will be more prepared. And I will invite more friends here to participate.

Thank you and best regards.

Anderlon PY2100SWL

Hi Anderlon, don’t worry for the little log, I am sure that next time you will be more prepared. After your invitation I wait for more logs from your country in the next IOTA Contests!

(The Contest Manager)

The next IOTA Contest will be run on 30/31 July 2011 and the full rules will be published in the MDXC/SWL site. You are welcome!

The Contest Manager
Dan Rolla, I1-12387