German amateur radio club
| German Amateur Radio Club (DARC) |
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| legal form | Registered association |
| purpose | Promotion of amateur radio |
| Seat | Baunatal |
| founding | 1950
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| place | Baunatal near Kassel |
| Board | Christian Entsfellner (Chairman) |
| executive Director | Jens Hergert |
| Members | 33,291 (01/01/2020) |
| Website | www.darc.de |
The German Amateur Radio Club e. V. (DARC) is Germany's largest amateur radio association with around 34,000 members . About 50% of the German radio amateurs belong to it.
Structure and numbers
The DARC is divided into 24 districts and approx. 1050 local chapters. The districts are marked with letters; the local chapters are each assigned to a district and numbered consecutively within the district. The district identifier and the number form the district and local association identifier (DOK), e.g. B. A01, which is used as the abbreviation for the local association and is used for amateur radio diplomas.
The Association of Radio Amateurs in Telecommunications and Post - VFDB e. V. is a corporate member of the DARC. Its approximately 2500 members in 90 local chapters can also become DARC members and are listed under the district identifier Z (e.g. DOK Z01), which extends over the entire federal territory , when it comes to placing QSL cards .
The first chairman and the two to five-member board are elected every two years at the general meeting. The general assembly, also known as the amateur council, consists of the chairmen of the districts including the VFDB. The district chairpersons elect the district chairperson.
A permanently employed managing director manages the day-to-day business of the association. The DARC office, the editorial staff of the members' magazine CQ DL and the QSL card brokerage are located in the Baunatal amateur radio center .
The annual fee for club membership is 99 euros, there are discounts for young members in training, the severely disabled and members with low incomes (49.20 euros). Since 2013 it has been possible to voluntarily switch to a PRO membership with an increased annual fee (150 €). The additional contribution will be used for special amateur radio projects.
About 1.5% of the members do not have an amateur radio license because they limit themselves to listening (Short Wave Listener, SWL) or are preparing for the amateur radio exam.
Although some local chapters are growing, the total number of DARC members is decreasing.
purpose
The tasks of the club are to promote amateur radio and to create suitable framework conditions for the amateur radio service .
The club pursues its goals as a registered association (register of associations at Kassel District Court No. 1314) according to the following extract from the statutes (summarized):
1. The club [...] pursues exclusively and directly charitable purposes [...].
2. The purpose of the club and its subdivisions […] is to promote amateur radio. The purpose of the statutes is achieved, in particular through funding
- a) of science and research.
- b) education and upbringing.
- c) the support of the authorities in setting up communications links in the event of a disaster, excluding social differences and political, military or commercial purposes (see emergency radio ).
- d) international understanding.
3. The duty of the club […] is to enable its members to serve these goals and to realize them.
General services
Key performances for its members include the communication of QSL cards , the monthly magazine CQ DL and of competitions ( contests ).
Furthermore, the activity of the members in the local association is one of the important services of the DARC. There are successful examples of local chapters, etc. during the regular OV evenings. a. Offer technical lectures, organize joint field days , set up youth handicrafts either independently or together with schools and other local associations, develop antenna building seminars for members, participate in radio competitions together and much more. These on-site activities are a key feature of the DARC.
To attract young people, people interested in technology are introduced to radio technology. In some of its local associations, the club offers training courses for the amateur radio examination at the Federal Network Agency . In addition, the association organizes a distance learning course in which, in addition to the learning units, the participant can fall back on the support of so-called Afu sponsors who are registered in the DARC database as helpers.
At the federal level, in the districts and in many local associations, the association has a large number of contact persons who can provide technical and legal support.
As the German member association of the IARU (only one association is permitted as a member per country), it claims and is also obliged to represent the interests of German radio amateurs and, in some cases, those of shortwave listeners. The lobbying work in politics is carried out in cooperation with other amateur radio associations from the amateur radio round table .
DE mark for shortwave listeners in the DARC
The DE test and the license plate assigned after it is intended to encourage participation as an amateur radio receptionist in the international amateur radio service. With the DE label, the placement of QSL cards is significantly simplified and you can also document your reception services as an SWL with a listener's diploma if you have collected the required QSL cards.
The basics of shortwave reception must be proven before the DE license plate is assigned. The level of the test is still well below that of the simplest amateur radio test. In amateur radio courses, the DE exam is often held as a small intermediate exam. The simplest basics are tested in the following areas:
- Filling out QSL cards
- Statutory provisions (e.g. Amateur Radio Act and Amateur Radio Ordinance )
- Industrial engineering
- electronics
- Organization of the amateur radio service
QSL cards
Many radio amateurs maintain a lively exchange of QSL cards. Sending each individual QSL card as a postcard would incur high costs and in some countries there is also the problem that the postal system is not sufficiently developed to ensure reliable delivery. The DARC collects the QSL cards of the members from the individual local chapters. These collections are sent to the amateur radio center in Baunatal, where they are centrally sorted and sent to QSL offices around the world. For Germany, the DARC has the central QSL office. The foreign QSL cards and the German QSL cards for German radio amateurs and shortwave listeners in the DARC are sorted centrally and in turn sent as a collective package to the individual local associations for distribution.
Radio DARC
Since March 2015, the association has also been producing radio broadcasts in the form of delivered program contributions (i.e. without appearing as an independent media provider) under the motto “From radio amateurs for radio amateurs”. They are broadcast under the name Radio DARC as web radio and over several VHF and shortwave stations on frequencies in the radio bands.
The main broadcast is broadcast every Sunday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. local time on 6070 kHz. The broadcast can be heard at different broadcast times via the broadcasting center of the ORF in Moosbrunn (Vienna area) with 100 kW ERP and as a repetition on Channel292 from Ingolstadt with 10 kW, both on 6070 kHz ; also on Sundays at 11 a.m. and Mondays to Saturdays at 5 p.m. on 7440 kHz . (The time information should all relate to local time, i.e. CET / CEST; in the aforementioned sources, corresponding times are given in UTC as the time zone, but CET on the broadcast homepage.) The free radio program RundFunk Meißner , the is also mentioned on the website as one of the media law carriers, explicitly mentioned in the intro of the program, further broadcasts are listed on the corresponding website of the DARC.
The editor is Rainer Englert, DF2NU. Technical contributions such as the "technology corner" are often very close to corresponding Wikipedia articles in terms of content and expression; a reference to the source "Some transmissions used Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia as a source" is usually only made on the "Recordings of past broadcasts" website.
history
On July 28, 1925, the first national German amateur radio association , the German Radio Technology Association (DFTV) was founded. Abraham Esau , EK4AAL was its first president.
The association was re-established in September 1950 as the Association of German Radio Amateurs. After the Second World War , eight regional DARC clubs were founded. Lengthy negotiations preceded the merger. The DARC was founded on September 10th at the four-day long short-wave conference in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .
President
- Richard Auerbach, DL1FK (1950–1951), editor DL-QTC 1951–1976 DE 3831, ex D4CIJ
- Rudolf Rapke, DL1WA (1951–1961), Honorary President until 1973, President of the DARC / BZ 1946–1951, DE 0356, ex D4BWJ
- Karl Schultheiss, DL1QK 1961–1970
1st chairperson
- Herbert Picolin, DL3NE (1961–1965)
- Walter Speckmann, DJ5UD (1965–1967)
- Herbert Picolin, DL3NE (1967–1969)
- Jürgen Netzer, DL3YH (1969–1974)
- Josef Kaiser, DK1QZ (1974)
- Otto Sailer, DL8AJ, ex 9S4AJ (1974–1977)
- Philipp Lessig, DK3LP (1977–1985)
- Karl Taddey, DL1PE (1985-1989)
- Günter Matz, DJ8BN (1989–1992)
- Horst Ellgering, DL9MH (1992–1997)
- Erhard Vögele, DK9HU, DE2KEV (1997–2001)
- Jochen Hindrichs, DL9KCX (2001–2009)
- Walter Schlink, DL3OAP (2009–2010)
- Jürgen Sturhahn, DL8LE (provisional 2010)
- Steffen Schöppe, DL7ATE (2010–2019)
- Christian Entsfellner, DL3MBG (2019)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Christian Entsfellner: DARC e. V. Imprint and Disclaimer , accessed on November 19, 2019
- ↑ DARC membership , accessed May 13, 2020
- ↑ About us «VFDB eV Retrieved on June 21, 2019 (German).
- ^ Association of radio amateurs in telecommunications and post (ed.): We about us . vfdb.org (accessed June 22, 2011).
- ^ Association of radio amateurs in telecommunications and post (ed.): District and local associations . vfdb.org (accessed June 22, 2011).
- ↑ German Amateur Radio Club (ed.): Contribution regulations of the DARC e. V. accessed on June 21, 2019.
- ^ German Amateur Radio Club (Ed.): Membership Pro. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ^ State of North Rhine-Westphalia: Common register portal of the states . URL: handelsregister.de (accessed on February 16, 2009)
- ↑ German Amateur Radio Club (ed.): Statutes of the DARC e. V. . URL retrieved on May 10, 2010
- ^ Announcement "Radio DARC daily" in the "BC-DX information" section in the Funkamateur magazine, issue 2/2019, page 183
- ↑ Message "Weekly repetitions of Radio DARC" in Deutschlandrundspruch 2/2019 of January 10, 2019 by DARC e. V., published on DB0FHN, accessed January 13, 2019.
- ↑ darc.de
- ↑ alximedia.de
- ↑ Publications of the Working Group for Amateurfunkfernsehen AGAV ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Remarks
- ↑ Amateur radio callsign. Federal Network Agency , accessed on February 8, 2015 : "Status: 02/06/2015 - number of assigned call signs: 74481"
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