Holy Spirit Chapels
“I.D.E.S.” Plaque Regulations
In order to make known the Azorian Chapels, the Azores DX Group organizes the “Holy Spirit Chapels Plaque”. The intention is to disclose the Festivals in honour of the Holy Spirit, which has been rooted in the Azorian people for a few centuries. It is the Azorian biggest manifestation, both religious and profane, and fiercely lived troughout all villages, in every islands, as well as in many immigrants communities.
The chapels known as impérios (empires) of the Holy Ghost, have showy decorations and fantastic shapes; at the top of their facades the "empires" have a white dove or crown, that sylbolizes the Holy Spirit. They shelter the crown and the Holy Spirit scepter, where all festivities are centralized.
Annexed to the "empires" are the "larders", where the bread, meat and wine to be used in the festivals is kept, this is all to be offered to residents and visitors.
IDES. Holy Spirit Chapels
1º All amateuradio that have licenses can acess the Plaque as well as SWL´s, it has international nature;
2º The Plaque will be issued in only one category, all contacts can be made in any mode or band, authorized by the actual law;
3º There will not be allowed contacts via repeaters, satellites, packet, band or intersect mode;
4º All contacts since January 1, 2010 are valid;
5º All contacts are valid in any Chapel, apart from being valid for any other Awards;
6º To be able to obtain the Plaque the station has to show contacted at least 25 Chapels;
7º The Chapels will have a reference beginning with “IDES-001”, and they also count for the “Historical Portuguese Monuments Award” and “World Castles Award”, whose references will be mentioned in the references table;
8º The expeditionary station must transmit from inside the Chapel. If not possible from inside, it is allowed to transmit from the outside no farther than 100 meters. In any operation it can only be activated two references daily with the same callsign;
9º It will be credited to the expedition operators the activated references, as long as in their log is registed al least 50 contacts. The person responsable for the operation has to concede to the Plaque manager if he so requires it;
10º To request the Plaque it has to be send a list with all contacts, certificated by a association or sign by two amateuradio, however is reserved to Azores DX Group the right to ask for any QLS that presents any doubt;
11º The lists must include the following data: station, date, band, reference and the name of the Chapel;
12º The Plaque costs:
20 € to Portugal, Azores and Madeira Is
25 € to Europe
30 € to the rest of the world
Note: These prices include the transportation fees
13º The Plaque requests and the lists of the activated Chapels are to be sent to:
AZDXG- AZORES DX GROUP
I.D.E.S. Award Manager:
Manuel de Oliveira, CU3BL
cu3bl@sapo.pt
Manuel Simoes de Oliveira
Cm de Além, 16 – Terra Cha
9700-703 ANGRA DO HEROISMO
PORTUGAL
