[DX] IOTA rules

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:13:19PM -0700, John Geiger wrote:
> Decided to finally get into chasing islands-as the new
> countries are getting to few and far between (just
> worked #300 last week-S07L).  I seem to remember
> reading something that for the IOTA Award, the QSL
> must have the IOTA number printed on the card?  Is
> that correct-or am I way off base.  Starting to go
> through my QSLs to find out what I have confirmed. 
> Already found a few island stations, but with no IOTA
> number on them, so not sure if they count or not.

Not quite.  The card must have the island name, however, and it 
should not be in the form of a hand-written annotation.  See
http://www.rsgbiota.org/rules02.htm

Bob, N7XY