IOTA Island Group Listings

 

https://www.iota-world.org/

"IOTA is an exciting and innovative activity programme that has caught the interest of thousands of radio amateurs worldwide. Established in 1964, it promotes radio contacts with stations located on islands around the world to enrich the experience of all active on the amateur bands and, to do this, it draws on the widespread mystique surrounding islands. It is administered by Islands On The Air (IOTA) Ltd (called here IOTA Management) in partnership with the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB).

IOTA Management has grouped the oceans' islands into some 1200 'IOTA groups' with, for reasons of geography, varying numbers of 'counters', i.e. qualifying islands, in each group and has published the listings in the IOTA Directory and on the IOTA website. The objective, for the IOTA Island Chaser, is to make radio contact with at least one counter in as many of these groups as possible and, for the IOTA Island Activator, to provide such island contacts. The programme has a strong rule structure. IOTA Management encourages friendly competition among chasers by publishing details of participants' performance in an Honour Roll and annual listings, as well as by recognising it with certificates and prestige awards."

History of IOTA

https://www.iota-world.org/history.html

In 1964 a British Short Wave Listener, Geoff Watts (now sadly a Silent Key) started an activity programme based on contacting island groups around the world. Geoff was not a wealthy man and had little opportunity to travel himself, but it is clear that listening to amateurs operating from remote island locations captured his imagination. Thus the Islands on the Air (IOTA) programme was born.

The main meeting frequency for IOTA is 14.260MHz.

 Other ones on SSB are:

28.560

28.460 

 24.950

 21.260

18.128

14260

 7.055

 3.755 MHz

AFRICA    AF

https://www.iota-world.org/iota-directory/iota-island-group-listings/africa.html

ANTARCTICA   AN

https://www.iota-world.org/iota-directory/iota-island-group-listings/antarctica.html

ASIA  AS

https://www.iota-world.org/iota-directory/iota-island-group-listings/asia.html

EUROPE  EU

https://www.iota-world.org/iota-directory/iota-island-group-listings/europe.html

OCEANIA  OC

https://www.iota-world.org/iota-directory/iota-island-group-listings/oceania.html

SOUTH AMERICA, BRITISH ISLES, WEST INDIES  SA and other

https://www.iota-world.org/iota-directory/iota-island-group-listings/south-america-british-isles-west-indies.html

NORTH AMERICA  NA

https://www.iota-world.org/iota-directory/iota-island-group-listings/north-america.html

ARCTIC ISLANDS  NA and EU

https://www.iota-world.org/iota-directory/iota-island-group-listings/arctic-islands.html

LINKS for IOTA

https://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~ja1qxy/sub19.html

https://www.qsl.net/va3rj/cubaiota.html

https://www.qsl.net/va3rj/isl_iota.html

https://www.wlota.com/

https://www.qsl.net/sv2ael/sv2ael.files/sviota.htm

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