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The district's local association Kenner (including district-local group of connoisseurs , short Ortsverband Kenner , abbreviated DOK , in the plural DOKs ) is the German Amateur Radio Club (DARC), so the largest German Amateur Radio Association , used unique identifier for its slightly more than in 1000 Local chapters into which it is divided.

The identifier reflects the special geographical division of the national territory of the Federal Republic of Germany used by DARC (see overview map under web links ) and consists of two parts. The first part indicates the so-called “district” and is designated by one of the first 25 capital letters of the Latin alphabet (ie A to Y), for example “A” (stands for the Baden district ). The detailed subdivision of the districts into individual "local associations" (OV) is identified by a two-digit number, for example "Ø1", whereby the special notation of the number zero , which is also used here, is used frequently (but not always) , as is common with radio amateurs , to avoid confusion with the letter "O" . In this example, the DOK is "AØ1" (stands for the place Constance ). Pronounced "Alfa Zero One" according to the NATO spelling table.

A total of 24 × 99 (the number "ØØ" as 100th option and the letter "J" are not used), i.e. 2376 different DOKs, are available, more than enough to be able to clearly identify all 1000 local branches of the DARC. In addition, the last letter of the alphabet, the “Z”, is available for further DOKs. The 94 local chapters of the Association of Radio Amateurs in Telecommunications and Post (VFDB) affiliated to the DARC are hereby identified, for example "Z94" for Havelland .

There are also so-called special DOKs that do not follow the system described. They are used, for example, for special contests or anniversaries . One example is the special DOK "WYDØ5", which was used for World Youth Day 2005 .

In addition to the actual identification of the local sections, the DOKs also serve as an identity-creating feature for radio amateurs and are not only known and used by domestic radio operators. For some contests and especially for many amateur radio diplomas, DOKs are used as point counters. Collecting as many DOKs as possible on as many amateur radio bands as possible is also very popular.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all DOKs (PDF; 95 kB), accessed on August 18, 2017
  2. ↑ Sonder-DOK , accessed on August 18, 2017
  3. ↑ DOKs in the DARC Explanations of the DOK by the DARC, accessed on August 18, 2017