K1KU: I had enough fun in this one that I'm motivated to find me a Maine or Canadian island next year and be the DX for a change. Great contest!

K3VY: Conditions very poor. I did get 12 new IOTA numbers. I have 194 confirmed 214 worked. When I get 205 confirmed I will send in for BASIC CERTIFICATE !

K5ZD: Always fun chasing the islands!

KC0IGY: First IOTA contest. Having lots of fun contesting when possible.

KG1E: First IOTA contest was a lot of fun, even with the poor band conditions.

KI6MX: My first contest - enjoyed it and learned a lot.

LA1K: Hmm, the IOTA contest is fun, plain and simple. Full-blown effort next year!

LA6IHA: It was fun but conditions were not at their best...

LA9RY: Started with K-value 5, increasing to 7 during a 9 hour period the night before and after the test showed maximum K=3. Nice to be in this contest for the first time. Operated from my summer house.

LU7DW: Only few hours from home... I hope to be on an island next year. Is better to be in the other side of the pile-up

LX1NO: Poor behaviour of IL7M whom it took many QSOs to sometimes mention his IOTA reference, most often only when being asked. That's definitely against the rules!

M0AFZ: Great fun but terrible conditions!

M0BAO/P: Very poor wx on Saturday caused antenna problems.

M0RHI: Condx not bad. Gave me a good chance to test a portable set-up at the home QTH which worked. Will make a serious go of it next yr. Excellent Contest!

M5KJM: First time I've entered looking forward to next year

M5Q: Static rain for most of the evening and night. What happened to 10m? Some good DX to be worked on 20m and 40m during the night if you went hunting, some nice new IOTAs worked.

M6C: Great day, learned a lot.

M6T: Good fun as usual. Shame about the lousy conditions on 15 & 10.

MM0BQI/P: First two hours fantastic then someone moved the propagation! Few problems this year except two bulls and an electric fence ten feet from the shack! The MP noise blanker works quite well. See you next year from the top of the island.

MU0FAL: An unexpected unplanned entry made things interesting, I just love the exchange in this contest on CW. Makes for a good rhythm in pileups.

N0YO: This was my first contest using the new tower. The extra 25 feet makes a lot of difference. Just wish I would have had the time to do a whole 24 hrs.

N1BCL: Had a great time and I am already looking forward to 2004.

N1DX: This was an expedition - W0NO brought all towers, antennas in a van from Kansas! K0BJ brought FT-847 and K1TWF brought SB-1000.

N2GC: Despite lousy conditions activity for this contest seems to be getting better every year. Nice to see the many island activations from this side of the pond. CU next year.

N4DL: This was my first IOTA contest. I had a lot of fun and will be back next year.

N4UH: The rhombic worked great into Europe and the TH7 filled in the rest of the world. Conditions fair and made this 84 year oldie work!

N9RV: Good activity, especially from the UK. Too bad conditions went south after the first six hours. 40 meters to EU was especially bad. But fun working the islands.

OE3ZK: Poor conditions - but it was fun!

OH0R: After 7 times of operating from Sandström Reef we decided to do something else this year... Discussion with OH2TA at SRAL's summer camp just one week before the contest led to this joint venture operation with OH DX RING, the old club behind the Brändö contest site and many fine contest operations and DXpeditions with several callsigns (OH2AM, OH0AM, OH0R, OH0B etc. etc.) Unfortunately Mother Nature was not on our side and the radio conditions were very poor from here north. Even the Europeans were very weak and difficult to copy on all bands. During the contest we had to go QRT three times and disconnect everything because of thunderstorms. Over 100 QSOs were lost from the log (between 0830-0930) because of hard disk failure in one of the computers. During that time we had one station only QRV until a lightning strike very nearby...

OH3TZ: A nice event even without any on-line computers, etc. The humble result is no problem, because to the old brain and the shaky hands it was good rehabilitation.

OK1-35783: Really nice contest. Perfect thing is 12 or 24 hours "system". See you next year.73!

OK1ANN: I am in IOTA Contest every year from 1998. It is my favourite contest because I am Island Hunter.

OK1TFH: It is my best contest from all other world contests.

ON7TQ: In spite of not being on one of the islands this year we had great fun. Been one of the operators, the last 4 years, as PA6TEX from-EU038 but we could not make the trip this time.

ONL-3647: after 24 hours of listening in this years contest I thought this was my worst result in 6 years of IOTA contests. Conditions on this side were bad to very bad, especially during the night. For some stations I had to listen for more than 10 minutes to copy their callsign. When I was completing my log I noticed that I scored lesser contacts, but more points!!!

OZ/DF0TX: Had a nice time on Romo Isl. with DXing and swimming in the North Sea.

OZ/DJ1AA/P: Bad bad bad DX conditions. I was so sad about the possible scores. But anyway I had a lot of fun during my first IOTA contest from a real Island. In the past I worked only from at home. 73 and see you next year. Mirko DJ1AA ex OZ/DJ1AA/P Romo Island EU-125.

OZ1DUG: 1st HF contest participation

OZ1DYI/P: Power: a 90 W solar cell - there is no electricity at the QTH

OZ8AE: Condx not as good as I expected but this contest seems to grow every year and I am having fun taking part in it. Using IC-746 max 100 watts to Inv L-ant for 80 m, 43 m vertical LOOP for all bands 40-10 meters plus a TH3-MK4 at 11m.

PA/DH5HV: First time IOTA contest for me from EU146 during summer holiday. Enjoyed it very much with my friend PA3BSQ. (He did CW) Next time maybe another Island.

PA0IJM: A nice contest with a lot of activity from the islands. Have fun with the control of the incoming logs. Best 73 and hope to meet you again.

PA0TON: Tnx for the opportunity to work some new islands.

PA3AFF: It seems to me that CW speed increases each year!

PA3GZC: Many thanks for organising and checking.

PA5KT: Just testing some things. No efforts. Condx were bad.

PA7XG: Mainland stations have regretfully little to offer to this contest. Thus my thanks to participants who were kind enough to accommodate my callsign in their logs.

PA9ZZ: A lot of fun. The IOTA Contest gets better every year!

PI4HQ: To start with: thanks again for the perfect organisation of the IOTA contest in the past and in 2003! For us it was great fun again. Our group is growing so fast so maybe next year our club might need an extra island so all ops get a change at the mike or key! Needless to say conditions were not like the past two years but the increasing activity guaranteed again very crowded bands and a lot of multipliers to search for. Big thrill was the CW activity from all corners of the earth on 40m and the many brand new operators on the HF bands from the UK.

PS2I: special thanks to PY2GA, PY2EB, PY2AKR, PY2BW (for lending us his linear amp) and to our wives (hi hi hi)... and all friends from São Paulo Contest Group.

PU5HAS: 10m was too hard. I am class C, I can only operate in 10m and 80m in this contest. I was using a dipole for 10 and for 80.Equipment: Ft-707 and an old PC.

RV6BC: Good contest!!!

SM6AVD: This traffic is nowadays too rapid for my 73 years of age and my shaking fingers. But I got 2 "new ones".

SO1CE: Nice contest again but poor condx CU in 2004!

SO1VAF: We had a lot of fun-propagation on 10 and 15m were poor nice contest again CU in 2004- tnx vy 73!

SP5UAF: Had very limited time. It's a pity. Perhaps next year...

SV1XV: Poor propagation on 20 m on Saturday evening and no propagation at all on Sunday morning despite a Solar Flux of 104. K-index was around 4. Very good conditions, low noise and strong signals during the night on 40 and 80 m. Still, I managed to work a few new IOTA entities.

SV5/G4DHF: HF conditions gradually deteriorated throughout the weekend. Found it difficult to hold a run QRG in the face of high power mainland stations.

SV9/PA0NMH: Not intended to travel to Crete, realised at last the IOTA-Contest would be during my stay. Big fun, however only limited time available. None of the contest programs known to me produced a proper Cabrillo format, hence a look-alike in Excel.

TF8GX: Terrible conditions on all bands.

TM3ON: Very difficult start - bad condx - 10m only a few QSOs in CW -Why still need nrs ?? the essential of the QSO RST+Nr the essential is the IOTA REF ( 15pts-multi) -only the not IOTA stations : RST+Nr !!! HOPE TO BE BACK IN 2004!!

UA1QV/P: Propagation was very very bad 27 of July...It was my "General-repetition" before RDA Contest Worked from field conditions (RDA: VO-12) with simple equipment specially. In RDA Contest I shall take part in "Field" group. But very interesting Contest - IOTA - without any reasons!!! TNX!

UA3AGW: My first ever IOTA Contest operation! Thanks for nice opportunity to gain more islands for still young IOTA participant with only 500 isl cfmd.

UA9FGJ: This contest was hard work.

UR5IFB: Very nice contest but big QRM from fixed station to island station 73 cuagn in next year!!!

UT2IWT/P: Worked from an island Lyapina. For the Diploma of an Island of Ukraine.

UT8LL (UR8LV op.): I had activated callsign of Victor UT8LL to memory from his own position

UV7M: Good Contest!

UY5LQ: I liked competitions. I shall be very glad to meet the next year! All of good luck and many thanks!

UY5ZZ: Great contest, but very poor conditions on 21 and 28MHz...Only 6 new IOTA for my collection. See you next year!

VE1JS: Conditions were basically lousy throughout the contest but I had fun in spite of it all. The antenna restrictions for low power stations must go!!!!! Put the restrictions on High Power stations if you must have them.

VE1RGB: What a fun contest! And two new countries, to boot! I am reasonably new at contesting and very inexperienced with electronic log submission processes. My score won't win any prizes, but nonetheless I do hope to have my results officially entered. Anything I need to do to make that happen (within my capability, that is), please let me know. And please pass my thanks on to that anonymous group of folks who labour long and hard to make contests such as IOTA a success. I am well aware that such things do not just happen all by themselves.

VE3CTD: Torrential rain and mud! Background noise of rain on tents made contacts difficult. On-air activity curtailed.

VE3MR: Having operated in the past from EU-146, I know the big difference between being the hunted and the hunter, hi!

VE7TUB: We were operating as a Special Event Station. Celebrating the 37th World Championship Bath Tub Race. Please use this Log for checking purposes. Some of operators did not copy all the important information.

VO1TA: Poor band conditions but had a good time anyway hope to cuagn next year

VY1/N7FL: Enclosed is the log for the 2003 IOTA Contest from Herschel Island, NA-193. This was a very interesting and, at times, trying DXpedition. We went from moments where we thought that all that we had done was for naught when the case with the coaxial cables and antennas was lost by the airline company, all the way up to awe, wonder, and elation when the Beluga whales passed by no more than 50 feet off the beach next to our tent. Propagation from inside the auroral oval usually was not good, as can be seen from the "spacing" of the times of the contacts we were able to make during the contest. Each contact had to be coaxed, prodded, and persuaded out of the auroral oval during that weekend. We learned later from another amateur radio operator in Seattle that his daughter was able to see her first aurora that Saturday night, 2003 July 26-27. If anyone asks, that was a major factor in our level of performance from the island this year. Perhaps it might be possible to improve on our record next year. Debby and I have been talking about trying this again with the benefit of all that we learned from this trip. Now if there is only something we can do to convince the Propagation Gods to smile upon us also . . .

W2/NP3D: I was happy to participate in IOTA Contest for the very first time.

W3TBG: We had a great time! All the bugs we could eat. Actually, the island food was terrific. Our thanks to the Ewell fire department for allowing us the use of their facilities.

W4SAA/P: Enjoyed the event. Hoped for more CW activity from some of the island groups. Only able to make about 20 QSOs in last 4 hrs, no JA no EU, and condx vy poor. Would like to see a few more certificates offered in future IOTA contests. Tks Q's.

W5FO: A lot of noise here on the lower bands. Fun anyway. I'll do better next year.

W6RMK/M: Please find attached my log for the IOTA contest. Sorry about the crude formatting, this was my first contest, entered on a lark while running errands with my daughter and operating mobile. Great fun!

WB2YQH: Horrible conditions frustrated my enthusiasm and just did not go the usual 12 hours wasting RF!

WB8YJF/4: Fun as usual. Need a new location, cars driving over radials laid on top of gravel drive. CU next year!

YD3JMO: My first participating on IOTA

YE5X: Used this event for socialisation of IOTA to local novice operator. Hopefully, in the future, they will be active from several islands here.

YM0T: After a crushed electronic log nightmare in 2002,completed a fine contest DXpedition from Kefken Island (AS-159) this year. Antennas: Giant home made Windom (10 to 160) 35 m above ground, 80 m inverted eve 30 m above ground, 10 m vertical and a FD4 Windom as a sloper from top of the WLH-0691 to seaside. Made 1440 QSO at just 1 QSO per minute psychological border! But no more multiplier. Low bands were not good due to very high noise levels. Will try for bigger score in 2004. 73 TA2RC

YO3BWK Sorry, but my rig broke at 1834, hi!

YT1LT: This is my second IOTA contest. This year is better for me but I dont have OC IOTA because the propagation its not good for this IOTA. Contest is very fine and see you on the next contest.

YU1WC: This was my first IOTA contest, and I enjoyed it very much. Propagation was not ideal, but it did not bother me. I like contests like this, with special rules, and lot of activity since everyone may work everyone. Those aspiring to higher scores must concentrate on island stations. I missed a lot of IOTAs I knew were there - but probably they worked mostly or exclusively on SSB (e.g. very few Italian IOTAs in my log).

YV7QP: Bad conditions on 10m. FB contest!!

YW6P: Nice contest but propagation very low, nothing on 10m lot of fun activating SA-090 thanks for calling.

Z36W: Very bad time for operation from my country. Its too warm, for example temp. in my shack was over 35C and it is very difficult for operating. Anyhow I had fun and worked some new IOTAs.

ZC4VG: Bands absolutely dreadful!!! Best scores on 7 & 14 MHz, 21 & 28 MHz never really opened at this QTH. Only one QSO to Oceania, very few into NA or Japan. Mainly east European. At times QSOs into 'G' quite good, but very erratic.