”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.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=enPlease note: deadline for log-submissions is 7 days after contest end: 02.January 2024.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=enAnd now: Join the DARC-XMAS 2023 and have fun!Season´s Greetings and happy New Year …Michael DL3FCGDARC Referat ContesteContestmanager DARC-XMAS”
