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DARC, DOK and awards
If you are active in the society or collect awards, you will run into these abbreviations.
- DARC
- Deutscher Amateur-Radio-Club, the largest society in Germany
- Distrikt
- regional level within the DARC, identified by a letter
- OV
- local club, the local group
- DOK
- DARC district/club code, for example B37 for the Haßberge local club
- Sonder-DOK
- identifier for a limited time for a special occasion
- QSL-Karte
- written confirmation of a contact, traditionally a postcard
- QSL-Büro
- collects and distributes cards between the societies, cheaper than sending direct
- DXCC
- award programme of the ARRL, counting entities on its own list
- IOTA
- Islands on the Air, island groups to collect
- WAG
- Worked All Germany, contest and award
- LoTW
- Logbook of the World, electronic confirmation via the ARRL
- eQSL, Clublog, QRZ-Logbuch
- other electronic confirmation services
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