Dear Contester,

The Deutscher Amateur-Radio-Club (DARC) has the honor to invite all radio amateurs to participate in the annual XMAS Sprint-Contest.
The next edition of this well-known sprint contest will be running on December 26, 08:30-10:59 UTC.

As an international participant you have to work German stations for points and DARC districts (”DOK”) for multipliers. You have to send RS(T) and a serial number starting with 001.

Each station may be worked one time on 3.5 MHz and one time on 7 MHz. The station calling CQ must QSY after the QSO, leaving the frequency to the station which answered his/her call. A maximum of 20 band changes or mode changes are allowed during the contest period.

NEW: in the MIXED category, you can work each station on each band once in each mode (so in total 4 times without dupes).

German stations may work everybody. Members of DARC and VFDB send RS(T) and their DOK. Non-members of DARC and VFDB in Germany will send ”NM” instead of a DOK.

You will find the complete rules here:
https://www.darc.de/der-club/referate/conteste/weihnachtswettbewerb/en/

Please submit your log in CABRILLO file format via web upload. The web upload is available at https://dxhf2.darc.de/~xmaslog/upload.cgi?form=referat&lang=en
Please note: deadline for log-submissions is 7 days after contest end: 02.January 2025.

For questions send your mail to The list of log entries, claimed scores, and final results will be published on our website https://dxhf2.darc.de/~xmaslog/user.cgi?fc=loglist&form=referat&lang=en

And now: Join the DARC-XMAS 2024 and have fun!
Season´s Greetings and happy New Year …

Michael DL3FCG

DARC Referat Conteste
Contestmanager DARC-XMAS