<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:17 PM, billy McFarland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gm0obx@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">gm0obx@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left">As part of the exchange wintest requires an IOTA reference received. However if the station is not an island there's no requirement for them to send an IOTA reference. Wintest requires info in this gmfiekd before the QSO can be logged. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>For the IOTA contest, there are two exchange fields, one for serial number received, and a seoncd for the IOTA designator.</div><div><br></div><div>Win-Test only requires that a serial number (which is part of the exchange for all stations) be entered in the first exchange field. The IOTA number would (optionally) be entered in the second exchange field. For non-island stations, you don't have to enter an IOTA number, but you always have to enter a received serial number, and you must enter it in the right column.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left"><div>The question is this: Is there an option / button that can be used to either automatically enter generic IOTA references for the call example G3AAA as EU-005 or an option which allows the QSO to be logged without an IOTA reference.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Win-Test allows a QSO to be logged without an IOTA reference as long as you enter a received serial number in the column labeled "Rcvd", one space after the "599". So the completed QSO lines should look something like this:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="monospace, monospace">Bd Mode Time Callsign SenNo. Rcvd IOTA Mult Pt</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="monospace, monospace">20 CW 05:31 KH6XX 599 004 599 008 OC019 I 15</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="monospace, monospace">20 CW 05:31 N6TV 599 005 599 001 2</font></div><div class="gmail_extra"><font face="monospace, monospace">20 CW 05:31 KH6RS 599 006 599 007 OC019 15<br></font><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">If you don't see the column titles, select Options | Log | Headers | Left aligned.</div><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature">Maybe you were pressing the space bar twice after entering the call, skipping over the field after 599, instead of logging the serial number before pressing the space bar to move to the IOTA column? Were you logging the serial number in the IOTA column?</div><div class="gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature">73,<div>Bob, N6TV</div></div></div>
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