DL-active Award

The German Amateur Radio Club (DARC) e.V., local group (OV) Ertingen, DOK P57, publishes this diploma on the occasion of the peace since 1945 in Germany, which can be applied by radio amateurs and accordingly by SWLs for connections after the 1st of January, 2002 in 2 classes.

class A: The diploma is a performance-certificate and can be worked
              every year again.
              Only QSOs from this year count.
              year-number (f.e. 09-001)

Klasse B: All QSO after 01.01.2002 count.
              number (001)

1.) You have to work stations from Germany with different DOK-numbers from 1 to the number of peace years in Germany (from 1945), so in 2002 you have to work 57 stations from DOK-number 1 to 57, in 2003: 58 stations from 1 to 58, in 2010 from 1 to 65 … and so on.
You can include a maximum of 10 station with a greater DOK-number (as the maximum needed) as a joker for any missing DOK-number.

2.) Every district (A to Z without J) must be included once and a maximum of 10 station per district are allowed. Special DOK don't count!

3.) Every DOK-number may only be noticed once.

4.) All bands and modes are accepted without packet radio.

The award application is sent with a confirmed list of existing QSL cards (GCR list) and with the fee of
- DL: 5,00 Euro + postage DL (about 1,60 Euro) = 6,60 Euro
- EU: 5,00 Euro + postage EU (about 3,70 Euro) = 8,70 Euro or 12 US-Dollar
- DX: 5,00 Euro + postage DX (about 3,70 Euro) = 12 US-Dollar
to the following address:

If the award is requested 5 years in a row, the fifth award is without fee.

(September 2002, from DH8BM. The diploma is 210 x 297 mm largely. It shows a 11 x 18 cm large map with the DARC districts. The certificate was recognized on the club-meeting DARC in September, 2002. New release from November 2009)

Additional informations:
The DARC is organized in 24 districts named by a letter from A to I and K to Y and a 2-digit-number. The letter Z is for the VFDB organisation and counts as a DARC district. Each district is divided into several local groups named with two numbers, f.e. local group Ertingen is P57, P stands for district Wuerttemberg, and therein it is the 57th local group.

The award can be requested online, please write me an email with a list like a GCRlist as attachment.