If no radio button is checked, then *no* information about the radio buttons is sent by the browser to the server. The Server-side ASP code knows nothing about your form, so it knows nothing about the radio buttons. All it knows is what the browser sent to the server - and the browser didn't send anything about the radio buttons.
You could create a hidden input field on your form. Then, when the form is submitted, you use some client-side javascript to check whether any radio buttons were checked. And if no value is checked, you set the value of the hidden input element to reflect this fact.
Cheers
Ken
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