AWARDS of DARC DX Commitee
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The following awards of the German Amateur Radio Club (DARC) are issued by the DARC Committee for DX.
They may be applied by all licensed amateurs and SWLs.
All contacts must be made from the same country.
All cards or other written confirm ations must be in possession of the applicant.
Any submission of forged or altered cards lead to the disqualification from the awards program.
To qualify for the awards applicants must submit a GCR list.
This is a list of existing QSL cards which were verified by a club official, by two other licensed ham radio operators
or an official awards manager.
QSL card checkers have to compare all relevant data of the application like mode, band or date with the presented cards.
The checkers verify and confirm with signature and call sign that the information on the GCR list has been proved with QSL cards.
If the application is done by using the DCL (DARC Community Logbook) DCL-confirmed contacts and confirmed contacts imported from LoTW, eQSL an Clublog are acc
epted too.
For these contacts a QSL must not be submitted.
Mixed applications of DCL-confirmed contacts completed with GCR confirmed QSL cards may be submitted as well.
The awards manager may request the submission for these QSL cards (T-QSL) for verification in principle.
If the applicant does not use a GCR list for submission, all
QSL cards have to be enclosed with the application for verification by the awards manager himself. Sufficient return postage for the cards has to be enclosed with the application.
If you are in doubt about the postage rates please ask in advance.
All applications should be sent directly to the particular award manager.
The service charge for any one of the awards is per award paper
per award | paper-Version, shipping incl. | 7€ |
per award | pdf-Download | 3€ |
per badge | incl.-shipping | 5€ |
Trophy | incl.-shipping | 25€ |
WAE-Trophy | incl.-shipping | 30€ |
Honor Roll Europa | 3€ |
Stickers are free but a SASE is needed when applied for after the award.
Exceptions:
For WAE-Trophy-Stickers the service charges is EURO 5, an application for an EU-DX-Sticker is charged 1 EUR.
At the present time US$ will be accepted at a rating of EURO 0.75 each (1 US$=0.75 EURO).
IRC are no longer accepted. All shipping will be non - insured.
All decisions of the DARC Committee for DX and HF - Contesting are final.
You can order the rules of all official and by the DARC accepted awards by sending a SAL (self -adressed label) and sufficient return postage (3 new IRC per rule) to:
Awards Information
Friedrich zur Hellen, DL4BBH,
Hackfeld 13
27243 Winkelsett Germany
Questions per mail to: diplominfo@dxhf.darc.de
The application forms for single a wards can be obtained from the respective award managers as well.
It is recommended to use the official application forms issued by the DARC, but equivalent applications containing all the relevant data will be
accepted also. Internet users can download all the forms from the homepage of the DARC Committee for DX and HF-Contesting.
Downloads
General Award Rules - Download PDF
Downloads Award rules
The WAE70 Award
General rules
To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Worked all Europe Award, a special anniversary edition of the WAE (Worked all Europe) award in its original vintage design can be achieved.
The award recognizes contacts from the 10th of August, 2018 00:00 UTC (2018-08-10 00:00z) to the 25th of November, 2018 2359 UTC (2018-11-25 23:59z) . The applicant MUST submit the QSLs solely via DCL ( DARC Community Logbook). In addition, the application process will be handled only via the said DCL. Also, the award certificate can be printed/downloaded via this system.
All Bands and modes defined in the Worked all Europe award rules apply to the WAE70 Award which is awarded in the following categories:
· Bronze for contacts with 35 entities listed on the WAE country list
· Silver for contacts with 50 entities listed on the WAE country list
· Gold for contacts with 65 entities listed on the WAE country list
· Trophy for 70 ore more contacts listed on the WAE country
At least one QSO with the anniversary Station DJ70WAE is required and can be used as one (1) wildcard for any missing WAE entity.
The award Manager is DK5ON. His decisions are final.
DCL
The DARC community log can be accessed via
Registration is mandatory. A DARC membership is not required. The DCL accepts various sources of QSOs and QSLs:
1. T-QSL Traditional paper QSLs manually entered into the DCL system. These qsls are subject to verification on behalf of the award manager. Once verified, the QSL is valif for all DARC awards. No further submission is required.
2. ADIF file produced by most logging applications. Those qsos are subject to verification by the award manager.
3. LotW . DCL accepts QSLs verified by ARRL’s LoTW. LoTW QSLs are transferred via DCL (Mein DCL->Logbuch->LoTW-Import) and are valid for all DARC awards.
4. Clublog QSLs. DCL accepts contacts verified by Clublog. They are transferred via DCL (Mein DCL->Logbuch->Clublog-Import) and are valid for all DARC awards.
5. eQSL.cc. eQSL.cc contacts are being transferred on behalf of eQSL.cc. In eQSL, goto ‚Awards->External award programs’ and follow the directions under ‚Go to DCL Interface’. eQSL.cc QSLs are valid for all DARC awards.
6. DARC Contest Logs. Matching contacts made in DARC contests are automatically accepted when a log was submitted.
(DK5ON@darc.de, translation by DK5DC@darc.de)