AGCW Happy New Year Contest (HNY)

Three-hour New Year's Day CW contest. Entrants pick ONE of the three bands as their class rather than working all of them.

Rules at agcw.deThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

When it runs

January 1, every year

0900Z → 1200Z

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

0900Z Fri 1 Jan → 1200Z Fri 1 Jan · 3h2027
in 92 days
0900Z Sat 1 Jan → 1200Z Sat 1 Jan · 3h2028
in 457 days
0900Z Mon 1 Jan → 1200Z Mon 1 Jan · 3h2029
in 823 days
0900Z Tue 1 Jan → 1200Z Tue 1 Jan · 3h2030
in 1188 days

Operating

Modes: CW
Bands: 80m40m20m
Exchange: RST + running 3-digit QSO number from 001 (AGCW members also send their membership number, e.g. 599 067/2583)
Logs: no deadline or format recorded
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
This contest's AGCW page states no entrant clause. AGCW's other contests say 'Teilnehmen können alle Funkamateure' and nothing here restricts entry, so worldwide is the strong reading -- but it is a reading, not a quote.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off AGCW-DL's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-12.
What the source says: agcw.de/contest/hnyc: 'Termin: Immer am 1. Januar eines jeden Jahres von 09:00-12:00 UTC (10:00-13:00 MEZ)'. Klassen und Bänder: '80 m (3.510-3.560 kHz), 40 m (7.010-7.040 kHz), 20 m (14.000-14.060 kHz). Es kann nur eine der drei Klassen gewählt werden.'
Recorded caveats: Log deadline is a fixed calendar date -- '14. Januar 24:00 MEZ' -- not an interval after the contest, so log_deadline_days is deliberately unset.

Something wrong? How to report it — a link to the sponsor's own page is all it takes.

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