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 20.000 Bs.
  Foreign stations 12 $ ó 24 IRC

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

The station to activate has to be unavoidably on land, for that reason will not be valid activations those conducted from stations of "maritime movable" kind, even being docked at port, anchored or in passage next to the Island.

Is advisable that the expeditionary stations to the Islands have the corresponding special callsign. However, any expeditionary station is possible to use its own callsign as PORTABLE.

The expeditionary will be arranged to demonstrate their stay in the Island, by means of contribution of the sufficient graphical material (pictures or video) in case of being solicitd by the Manager of the DIV. Graphical data like: location in the activated Island, working place, facilities and members that compose the expedition. For its validation they must have carried out a minimum of 100 contacts.

The expeditions credited by the IOTA or DXCC program, will be guaranteed automatically in the DIV program.