The manifestation is of three months long and has the scope to introduce the Italian Islands, inestimable patrimony that the nature has intentional to give to us; the event has moreover the scope to stimulate the activity of all the OM, activators and "hunters" of islands.

Participation: it is opened to all Italian and foreign OM and SWL

Period: from the 00:00 UTC of the 21/06/06 to the 24:00 UTC of 21/09/06

Bands:HF, 6m, VHF, UHF (Sat, repeater, MS, EME qsos are not allowed)

Modes:SSB, CW, Digitals in the respect of the Band Plan

Rules for the activators:Italian Islands activators, in order to validate their operations, have to send the paper or electronic logs, pictures taken during the activation and any documents proving their activity to the Award Manager. It is not allowed to activate more than two ( 2 ) reference daily

In order to validate the "Summer Activity" activation 100 HF qsos or 50 V/Uhf qsos have to be completed for each reference

Award:Participation certificate to the "Summer Activity" will come free of charge to all those who will have connected a minimum of 20 different references on HF and 10 different references for the VHF endorsement. Requests have to be made within and not beyond the 30th of November 2005 to the Award Manager IZØBTV, Simone Bizzarri P.o.Box 51, 00046, Grottaferrata (Rome) Italy.10 euros or 15 $ are requested for the Italian Island Summer Activity

Paper or electronic log and a personal QSL are requested.

More information will be published at the following web sites: http://www.strangeradioteam.com , http://www.simonebizzarri.it

Prizes:Plates for:

• the first 3 activators (those who will have activated the greater number of islands)
• the first 3 classified on the "Hunter" list (those who will have more references)
• The First S.R.T. Member who will have activated the greater number of islands

L’Award Manager
Simone Bizzarri, IZØBTV