IOTA DIRECTORY 2000 -
NEW GROUPS
58 New Groups
have been added to the Directory (see IOTA Press Release 2).Credits
will be given for contacts only after a new reference number has
been issued. New Groups with resident amateurs will have a number
issued immediately. Groups without resident amateurs will have a
number issued when a valid operation has taken place after Start
Date, 19 June 2000. Once a number has been given and confirmed,
consideration will be given to allowing credit for operations
that took place prior to Start Date but information and some
documentation may be required by the Committee. The primary
responsibility for providing this is the DXpeditioner's.
Acceptance of a prior operation from a rare group will not be
automatic.
CONVERSION OF EXISTING RECORDS
New applicants may make their first submission at any time on the
basis of the data in Directory 2000. Existing IOTA members with a
score credited at IOTA HQ are asked to delay applying for credit
for the New Groups until they can submit a completed Conversion
Sheet. Copies of this will be available in early July on the RSGB
IOTA Web-site (for downloading) or from IOTA HQ. Checkpoints have
been instructed not to process cards without this.
IOTA DIRECTORY 2000 - DELETED ISLANDS
Some previously activated islands have been deleted from the
Directory listings for failure to comply with the IOTA
qualification criteria. Credit will continue to be allowed on the
following time restricted basis. If there is an active resident
amateur, the island will cease to count from 1 February 2005, but
new and old contacts will continue to count until then. If there
is no active resident amateur, existing contacts will count until
1 February 2005 but no new operations can be accepted after 1
February 2001. Credits for all contacts will be deleted after
preparation of the 2005 Honour Roll and Annual Listings.
ISLANDS WHERE OLD AND NEW CONTACTS ARE VALID UNTIL 1 FEBRUARY
2005
EU-060 SV1 Evvoia (aka Euboea)
EU-075 SV8 Poros Island
EU-052 SV8 Levkas Island
AS-021 A6 Abu Dhabi
EU-055 LA Karmoy Island
EU-124 GW,MW Anglesey
NA-026 W2
Staten Island
EU-029 OZ Als Island
NA-065 W7 Camano Island
EU-061 LA Notteroy Island
NA-065 W7 Fidalgo Island
EU-098
DL Poel Island
OC-137 VK4 Bribie Island
| AF-058 VQ9 Blenheim Reef |
| EU-080 EA1 La Toja Island |
| AF-071 various Geyser Bank |
| EU-102 R1P Pesyakov Island |
| AS-052 7J Okino Torishima |
| EU-102 R1P Gulyayevskiye Koshki Isl. |
| AS-099 TA Alibey Island |
| EU-154 EA3 Buda Island |
| AS-111 HZ Tarut Island |
| EU-154 EA3 San Antonio Island |
| AS-117 JA4 Omishima |
| EU-158 SV8 Sfaktiria Island |
| OC-061 various Minerva Reefs |
ISLANDS WHERE REVALIDATION IS REQUIRED, FAILING WHICH THEY WILL BE DELETED IN LINE WITH POLICY ABOVE
| EU-162 R1Z Velikiy Island |
| SA-025 PS8 Grande de Santa Isabel Island |
| AF-033 S7 Bertaut Reef |
| SA-071 PY2 Santo Amaro Island |
| AF-069 EA9 Perejil Island |
| SA-072 PR8 Canarias Island (+ maybe some others) |
5 Groups have been deleted from the Directory because the only island or only significant island has been found not to comply with IOTA qualification criteria. Credit will continue to be allowed on the following time restricted basis. If there is an active resident amateur, the island will cease to count from 1 February 2005, but new and old contacts will continue to count until then. If there is no active resident amateur, existing contacts will count until 1 February 2005 but no new operations can be accepted after 1 February 2001. Credits for all contacts will be deleted after preparation of the 2005 Honour Roll and Annual Listings.
| EU-098 DL Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State West group |
GROUPS WHERE OLD CONTACTS ARE VALID UNTIL 1 FEBRUARY 2005 BUT NO NEW OPERATIONS ALLOWED AFTER 1 FEBRUARY 2001
| AF-071 various Geyser Bank |
| EU-154 EA3 Barcelona/Tarragona Province group |
| AS-052 7J Okino Torishima OC-061 various Minerva Reefs |
Roger Balister, G3KMA - IOTA Manager RSGB
Mauro Pregliasco, I1JQJ - RSGB IOTA Committee Member (Europe)
19 June 2000
