D.1 Permission.

Please ensure that you have all the necessary permissions to land on and activate your chosen island(s). In the cases of many uninhabited islands this may best be done before you set out on your expeditions.

D.2 Proof of Activation

During your expeditions try and collect some kind of evidence of your presence on the island. This may take several forms:

A photograph showing yourself and station with some identifiable feature of the island especially if that island is not inhabited. In other islands a name plaque, road sign, or other suitable location may be useful.

Have someone sign your logbook with their name and address with the date and time. The boatman or carrier would be suitable as long as they are traceable.

Boat tickets, invoices, official receipts, etc., may be good corroboration.

A signed statement from a recognised official on the island giving dates, times and who witnessed your presence on the island. Again remember they must be traceable.

These are only a few suggestions which may be of assistance to the activator. It is up to them how they collect their information in case it may be needed later. Always retain any documentary evidence.

D.3 Island Activation.

Some island activations have caused problems when more than one activator has arrived on an island and operated at the same time. Furthermore, some activators have in good faith intimated well in advance by good advertising that they intend to activate an island and this is welcomed, especially by overseas directory holders.

Any activator(s) considering the activation of any of the listed islands should notify the IOSA Committee of their intentions as soon as possible to allow circulation of this information. This would allow any activator(s) who intend to activate the same island the opportunity to resolve a simultaneous activation and come to a mutual agreement.

In order to prevent difficult situations the IOSA Committee will try and co-ordinate intended activations in an attempt to prevent these clashes between activators, if asked to do so. This can only be done with full co-operation from the activators with a resolve to avoid visiting islands simultaneously unless already agreed between them.

The IOSA Committee therefore suggest to those who intend to activate islands to inform them with as much advance notice as possible and publicity will be given by radio, packet, Internet or whatever means available.

D.4 Method of Operation

This is entirely at the discretion of an activator provided it does not contravene licensing conditions.

D.5 QSLing

Activators are asked to QSL ALL requests whether direct or via the bureau. This may be an onerous task but failure to do so will reflect badly on the activator and also the IOSA programme.

E.1

The IOSA Committee administers the IOSA programme. It consists of five persons who are all members of the parent body, the GMDX Group. They are as follows:

    Rob Ferguson GM3YTS (Chairman)      Les Hamilton GM3ITN
    Dave Warburton GM�LVI               Charlie Wilson GM4UZY 
                         Eric Brown G�KJW

All correspondence should be addressed to GM4UZY QTHR - see F.1 below.

E.2 Liability of the IOSA Committee

Neither the IOSA Committee nor the GMDX Group nor any member of these committees can accept any responsibility for any financial or other loss resulting from action taken by any participant on the basis of any provision within this directory or any communications with them.

E.3 The IOSA Committee's Discretion

All participants, including chasers, swl's and activators, participating in the programme shall co-operate with the I.O.S.A. Committee. In particular and without prejudice to the forgoing generality, participants shall provide, on request of the I.O.S.A. Committee or a member thereof, such information as is deemed necessary by the Committee to preserve the credibility of the programme. Should any participant not comply or otherwise co-operate with the reasonable requests of the I.O.S.A. Committee or should the participant act or fail to act in a manner which is prejudicial to the running of the programme then the applicant's participation in the I.O.S.A. may, at the sole discretion of the Committee, be terminated. The decision of the I.O.S.A. Committee shall be final.

Rule E.4

The rules contained within this Directory shall be subject to the laws and jurisdiction of Scotland.

Rule E.5

The contents of the Island of Scotland Award directory are the copyright © of the GMDX Group/I.O.S.A. Committee and the reproduction of the contents including Island lists, rules and awards either in print or electronically is strictly forbidden unless authority in writing is obtained from the GMDX Group/I.O.S.A. Committee.

F.1

Directory and Award applications should be addressed to:

Charlie Wilson GM4UZY
Golden Acre
1 Borrowfield Crescent
Montrose, Angus
Scotland UK
DD10  9BR

Note:The additions, changes and deletions are effective from 1st December 2000 and are relevant to all I.O.S.A. directories from Directory No 001.