From NASWA Flash Sheet comes word of a revised IOTA shortwave listeners contest. The Mediterraneo DX Club, SWL Section, is proud to invite all short wave listeners to the IOTA SWL Contest.
The SWL Section discontinued in 2005, but has been recovered by the MDXC/SWL in cooperation with the RSGB HFCC, and will take place in parallel with the IOTA Contest.
The contest begins at 1200 UTC on July 29 and concludes on July 30, 2006. Shortwave listener's can log IOTA stations and accumulate points. Islands are counted as multipliers. SWL's are required to log the callsign and message of the station herd and callsign of the correspondent.
Email should be sent with a single attachment, preferably in Cabrillo. This format is recommended in order to cross-check the SWL logs with the amateur radio logs, already in Cabrillo. Being very difficult to find a logging program able to export an accestable Cabrillo for SWL's, Marek SP7DQR kindly provided the software, "Iota SWL Cabrillo," able to convert paper logs into Cabrillo format for the IOTA SWL Contest.
Rules have been translated in five languages including, English, Italian, French, German and Spanish. The Geoff Watts Plaque honors the founder of the IOTA Program, as well as a number of certificates will be presented by the MDXC. Software. Rules and previous results are available at: www.mdxc.org/swl Any questions can be addressed to the IOTA SWL Contest Manager, Dan Rolla, II-12387 at: jwlqla@tin.it
(Source: NASWA Flashsheet)