1º- The present award is of international scope, and any Amateur Radio or Listener (SWL) will be able to accede to it.

2º- All the contacts

3º -Award can be requested in (4) four versions:

  A- PHONE (SSB, AM, FM)

  B- CW

  C- DIGITAL

  D- MIXED

4º- The contacts in crossed bands or modes will not be taken into account, nor those done through repeaters, nodes, relays or via Internet (echolink, iLink, etc). Nevertheless, the carried out via satellite will be considered.

5º- The applicant, will have to demonstrate by means of the corresponding QSL cards, have contacted or listened the minimun number of required islands of the DIV directory listing, can be worked in any band or mode assigned to the amateur radio.

6º- Basic award will be granted to any foreign operator or listener (SWL) who demonstrates to have worked (or listened), at least, 20 Venezuelan islands from the DIV directory.

7º- Basic award will be granted to any venezuelan operator or listener (SWL) who demonstrates to have worked (or listened), at least, 30 Venezuelan islands from the DIV directory.

8º- A special award will be granted to any venezuelan or foreign operator or listener (SWL) who demonstrates to have worked (or listened), at least, 50 Venezuelan islands from the DIV directory.

9º- The contact made by two stations, both on the same island, will be considered valid for the object of this award.

10º- Those contacts made with portable stations will be considered valid, whenever they are within the effective legality.

11º- To request the D.I.V., the QSLs have to be sent without no type of amendments nor scrapings , associates to the request properly full, containing the following data: Station worked (heard), state, UTC time and date, mode, the foreign stations only need to send the list of the contacts certified by any society member of IARU.

12º- The D.I.V award fee is::

  Venezuelan stations 20 Bs F.
  Foreign stations 12 $ ó 24 IRC

With the object of being able to coordinate and to study requests of inclusion of new Islands in the Directory, as well as of the revisions that could be derived in the future, it will be in charge of the "COMISIÓN DE CONCURSOS Y EXPEDICIONES" (Contest and Expeditions Commission).

Therefore, the proposals that are desired to formulate for the inclusion of new Islands in the Directory, must be directed to this commission, with the sufficient advance with the object of its study and approval if it comes.

In case that somebody has certainty of the existence of other islands in its zone of influence and activity being able to demonstrate it documentarily, they will be including in this Program at the request of the interested one, which will have to ask for the inclusion of new islands accompanying all the documentation considered advisable, with the purpose of proving the existence of the island and sending this proposal to the following address:

This Commission, once studied the received documentation, will inform to the applicant on the resolution adopted as soon as possible.

The members of expeditions that remain developing the activity, from the beginning to its conclusion, the contact of that Island will be granted to them, valid for the award; for it the applicant should have to credit the activation.

Venezuelan Islands Award

The RADIO CLUB VENEZOLANO, with the purpose of fomenting the Amateur Radio, in special the activation of the different Venezuelan islands, in order to present them as much in the national scope as the international, has decided to create and to grant the "DIPLOMA ISLAS VENEZOLANOS" D.I.V. (Venezuelan Islands Award), that it will be sent according to the following bases :

1º- The present award is of international scope, and any Amateur Radio or Listener (SWL) will be able to accede to it.

2º- All the contacts with the different islands will have to be made after the 1 of January of 1980.

3º -Award can be requested in (4) four versions:

  A- PHONE (SSB, AM, FM)

  B- CW

  C- DIGITAL

  D- MIXED

4º- The contacts in crossed bands or modes will not be taken into account, nor those done through repeaters, nodes, relays or via Internet (echolink, iLink, etc). Nevertheless, the carried out via satellite will be considered.

5º- The applicant, will have to demonstrate by means of the corresponding QSL cards, have contacted or listened the minimun number of required islands of the DIV directory listing, can be worked in any band or mode assigned to the amateur radio.

6º- Basic award will be granted to any foreign operator or listener (SWL) who demonstrates to have worked (or listened), at least, 20 Venezuelan islands from the DIV directory.

7º- Basic award will be granted to any venezuelan operator or listener (SWL) who demonstrates to have worked (or listened), at least, 30 Venezuelan islands from the DIV directory.

8º- A special award will be granted to any venezuelan or foreign operator or listener (SWL) who demonstrates to have worked (or listened), at least, 50 Venezuelan islands from the DIV directory.

9º- The contact made by two stations, both on the same island, will be considered valid for the object of this award.

10º- Those contacts made with portable stations will be considered valid, whenever they are within the effective legality.

11º- To request the D.I.V., the QSLs have to be sent without no type of amendments nor scrapings , associates to the request properly full, containing the following data: Station worked (heard), state, UTC time and date, mode, the foreign stations only need to send the list of the contacts certified by any society member of IARU.

12º- The D.I.V award fee is::

  Venezuelan stations 20 Bs F.
  Foreign stations 12 $ ó 24 IRC

13º- To request the award, use the folowing address: