New Islands on the Air website

The RSGB's premier DX award scheme, Islands on the Air, launched its new website on the evening of Thursday, 21st June 2007.

The new site includes many innovative improvements, and contains also many new features including the ability to view one's own record of island groups confirmed. Soon it will be possible for participants to claim additional credits on-line and even to claim credit for IOTA Contest QSOs without the need for QSL card verification.

The site, at www.rsgbiota.org, has proved already to be a great success. Within the first week, 34,308 pages have been viewed (an average of about 4,900 per day) by users in 64 different countries, with the homepage, search page and island group information pages the most popular.

383 users have registered to use the QSO credits part of the site, of whom 163 are new to the IOTA programme, proving the value of moving to an on-line management system.

The site was developed primarily by Dominic Smith, M0BLF, with Martin Atherton, G3ZAY, acting as the liaison between the project team and the IOTA Committee.

Enquires about the website can be emailed to IOTA.online@rsgb.org.uk