Each one of the Croatian islands has its special beauty and characteristics.
Each has its own "most". We will reveal a all of them in the ''All Croatian Islands Award'' to you,
but we know that every one of you will discover at least one island superlative of your own in the
Croatian Adriatic .

In order for an expedition to a islands to be recognised, the activators must fulfil the following conditions:
a) During one day maximum of 3 Croatian islands with IC references can be activated
b) Minimum QSO requirement is 100 contacts from each Croatian island.
c) A photograph on which all the operators participating in the expedition are visible must be sent in.
d) An “ACIA - Expeditions data file” must be sent in completed fully with all the required data.

The activator or a number of activators are obliged to send in all that is required by the ACIA - award manager three months after the expedition's completion at the latest (the animator may send in scanned pictures via e-mail instead of the log & photograph mentioned earlier).

The “ACIA - Expeditions data file” forms are available at the ACIA - award manager, Croatian Islands Award Group – Executive committee members, and can be downloaded from the web site: http://www.9a7k.com .

Should the activator or a number of activators fail to send in the required data within the prescribed time period, then the expedition shall not be recognised nor their activity.
For radio amatures, Croatian islands hunters, contacts made during the expedition will be recognised as valid for the ACIA - awards if they possess a activator QSL card.

Should the ACIA - award manager evaluate that some of the activators do not fulfil the required regulated conditions for a ACIA - award; in that case the manager may disqualify the expedition. The same applies when the animator does not follow the ham spirit rules.

Every activator is obliged to answer all received QSL cards.

Activators can win a awards, stickers, medals, plaquete or trophy in the following categories: CW / Phone / RTTY / Mixed. All contacts on HF are eligible including WARC fields. A award for 50 MHz / 6 m and 144 MHz / 2 m is also granted.

                This is an fifteen (15) stage ''ACIA – Activators'' award compiled of:
   1) ACIA - Basic award: Activating 5 different islands from the ACIA-list
   2) ACIA - Basic Bronze medal: Activating 10 different islands from the ACIA-list
   3) ACIA - Basic Silver medal: Activating 15 different islands from the ACIA-list
   4) ACIA - Basic Gold medal: Activating 20 different islands from the ACIA-list
   5) ACIA - Basic Trophy: Activating 40 different islands from the ACIA-list
   6) ACIA – Diamond award: Activating 50 different islands from the ACIA-list
   7) ACIA – Diamond Bronze medal: Activating 100 different islands from the ACIA-list
   8) ACIA – Diamond Silver medal: Activating 200 different islands from the ACIA-list
   9) ACIA – Diamond Gold medal: Activating 300 different islands from the ACIA-list
 10) ACIA – Diamond Plaquette: Activating 400 different islands from the ACIA-list
 11) ACIA – Diamond 500 ''Trophy – pitcher'': Activating 500 different islands from the ACIA-list
 12) ACIA – Diamond 600 ''Trophy – pitcher'': Activating 600 different islands from the ACIA-list
 13) ACIA – Diamond 700 ''Trophy – pitcher'': Activating 700 different islands from the ACIA-list
 14) ACIA – Diamond Honour Roll – sticker: Activating 800 different islands from the ACIA-list
 15) ACIA – Diamond Honour Roll No. 1 – sticker: Activating 900 different islands from the ACIA-list

The fee for ACIA - Basic award for the activators is 3 € .
The fee per ACIA - Basic medal for the activators is 10 € .
The fee for ACIA - Basic trophy for the activators is 20 € .
The price of the ACIA – Diamond award for the activators is 3 €.
The price of a particular ACIA – Diamond medal for the activators is 10 €.
The price of the ACIA – Diamond plaquette for the activators is 20 €.
The price of a particular ACIA – Diamond trophy - pitcher for the activators is 30 €.

The Honour Roll ACIA – Diamond stickers is free of charge for all activators.

All additional information is available on request from the manager, either by post-mail, e-mail, packet radio, or Internet web pages:
a) Packet radio : 9A7K@9a0ykz.hrv.eu
b) E-mail: kresimir.juratovic@kc.htnet.hr or 9a7k@ 9a7k.com
c) Web page : http://www.9a7k.com

Diploma creator hold the right to change or amend certain criteria or requirements.
All Croatian Islands Award copyrights are reserved by the diploma creator.