Your award will be delivered to you by mail in approximately 4 weeks.
THE COST OF
THE AWARDS
The awards are issued free of charge.
Greek radio-amateurs must send 3 Euros to cover postage and handling
fees.
For those who wish to send coupons, 5 IRC are required.
For radio-amateurs outside of Greece, the fees for postage and
handling are 5 Euros or 8 IRC.
The
requirements for the attainment of the DXPEDITIONERS awards are:
GIOTA DXPEDITIONERS
3 HELLENIC
ISLANDS
Radio-amateur broadcasts must be made in accordance with the Radio-amateur
Service, from at least 3 different islands stated in the GIOTA charts in the same or different geographical
areas.
Radio-amateur broadcasts made by DXPEDITIONERS from INHABITED ISLANDS which are included in the GIOTA Award programme charts can be proven by:
A photocopy or digital copy of the tickets for the means by which the
visit to the island was made
The date of arrival to and departure from the island must be clearly
visible.
Relevant photographs of the station and the antennas which show that
they were installed on the island.
A photocopy or digital copy (scanning) of both sides of the QSL card
which was used to verify the contacts made from the island. The insertion of the name of the island and
the GIOTA reference number is required in order
for the cards to be considered valid.
The submission of of a copy of the station log in order to facilitate the
GIOTA Award Programme Committee in the creation of a better and more precise
control of applicants for the GIOTA awards is
desired but not required.
Radio-amateur broadcasts made by DXPEDITIONERS from UNINHABITED ISLANDS which are included in the GIOTA Award programme charts but don’t have a public
transportation connection can be proven by:
A statement from the DXPEDITIONER stating the means of transport which
was used to for the team’s transport to the island,
i.e.: a speedboat or fishing boat
Full details of the owner of the means of transport, i.e.: name, surname, address and telephone number,
as well as the name of the vessel and its registration number.
A photograph of the radio-amateur equipment along with the team on the
vessel
Relevant photographs of the station and the antennas which show that
they were installed on the island.
A photocopy or digital copy (scanning) of both sides of the QSL card
which was used to verify the contacts made from the island.
The submission of a copy of the station log in order to facilitate the GIOTA Award Programme Committee
in the creation of a better and more precise control of applicants for the GIOTA awards is desired but not required.
Broadcasts from anchored vessels are permissible provided the antennas
are installed on the shore of the island.
THE COST OF THE DXPEDITIONERS AWARDS
The awards are issued free of charge.
Greek radio-amateurs must send 3 Euros to cover postage and handling
fees.
For those who wish to send coupons, 5 IRC are required.
For radio-amateurs outside of Greece, the fees for postage and
handling are 5 Euros or 8 IRC.
GIOTA Honor Roll and Annual Listing
The names of those who have obtained a GIOTA Award
along with the number of islands which have been confirmed will be listed on
the GIOTA website.
The names and call signs of all those who have succeeded in making up to
29 confirmed contacts will by included in the Annual List.
Those who have made 30 confirmed contacts and over will be included in
the Honor Roll.
The Honor Roll and Annual List will be posted in the January issue of
every New Year in the 5-9 Report. (www.5-9report.gr)
THE OFFICIAL GIOTA CHARTS
As we have mentioned above, all islands, islets, skerreis and rocks of
the Greek Seas, which are marked by name on maps of a 1: 500,000 scale issued
by the Hellenic Hydrographic Service, are eligible for the GIOTA Award Programme.
In order to facilitate the Greek Islands On The
Air GIOTA award programme, the islands of the Greek Seas which are
eligible for the GIOTA awards have been divided
into five (5) geographical areas in accordance with the division which has been
made by the Hellenic Hydrographic Service of the Hellenic Navy.
The islands of these 5 geographical areas are listed in the formal
charts of GIOTA on which the Greek Islands On The Air award programme is based.
Each chart of a geographical area includes each island with its official
name. This name is written in Latin
characters.
Each island is identified by a combination of letters and numbers which
make up its reference number.
Example: NAS
011 ΨΑΡΑ PSARA EU 049
The abbreviation NAS means that the island belongs to the geographical
area of the North Aegean (Northern
Aegean Sea) and the number 11 is the consecutive (serial) number
of the island on the GIOTA charts
The name of the island is then written in Latin characters followed by
the IOTA reference number if the island is supported by the IOTA RSGB award
programme.
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