[Dx-qsl] Scoring and Classification Problem of TA0-Calls in Contests

Sun Nov 24 11:29:00 2002

Berkin,

Be advised that I have forwarded this message to the gentleman who maintains
the country files database for the CT logging program so that it can be
taken into account in future contests.

I am also forwarding it to the CQ Contest reflector so that other contesters
will be aware of your concern and so that they can let other software folks
know about it.

Obviously, the moral of the story is, log the zone and other information
that the station sends to you, NOT what the computer insists is "right"
(RTTY contest scoring not withstanding).

73, ron wn3vaw

My "Designated Driver" is a 12BY7

----- Original Message -----
From: "Berkin AYDOGMUS" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 11:11 AM
Subject: [Dx-qsl] Scoring and Classification Problem of TA0-Calls in
Contests

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

During the scoring procedure for contests we got aware of  a problem which
is unique to Turkey.

As widely known, in the Turkish Regulations the call-area 0 has been
assigned to the islands. On the other hand there are islands which are
eligible for the IOTA, besides some islands which are not (the islands in
the Marmara Sea like Heybeli, Buyuk, Sivri, Kinali, Burgaz, Avsa, Marmara).

The problem is rather the location of the islands which mostly are in Asia.
But all of the most commonly used contest-scoring and logging software count
them automatically to Europe which causes a wrong sort of scoring, resulting
in a unfair score for all stations which have worked any station located in
the Turkish islands, particularly those in Asia.

 All islands with the exception of the so called IOTA-Saros-Group (EU-186)
are in Asia.

In the CQ-WW-SSB Contest of 2002 the only participant from a Turkish island
has been TA1E/0 which was located in Bozcaada, IOTA-AS-099, clearly a
location in Asia. Therefore we ask the CQ-Contest Commitee to take this into
account in favour of the stations having worked this particular one, if
possible.

A definitive solution for the problem might be counting all TA0-Calls
generally as Asia for contests and making a modification to the scoring
software for accomplishing this. This is not unfair as in majority the Asian
islands are activated during contests and there is no other alternative for
solving the problem (it is impossible to assign distinctive Prefixes for the
exceptions). The other fact is that the vast majority of the islands are
located in Asia.

In terms of IOTA-Contests there is no problem as scoring (and contest report
exchange) incorporates the reference-number of the island.

I would like to ask all receipents of this mail to convey their thoughts
about my proposal as soon as possible to me. If this solution is accepted,
the next step has to be done by the vendors of the popular logging
softwares.

 73!
Aziz SASA,TA1EPresident TRAC

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