All Austrian 160m Contest (AOEC 160m)

Austria's worldwide 160m CW contest: eight hours from 1600 UTC on the Saturday of the third full November weekend, with OE districts as the prize.

Rules at oevsv.atThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

When it runs

Third full weekend of November

1600Z → 2359Z Saturday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

1600Z Sat 21 Nov → 2359Z Sat 21 Nov · 7h 59m2026
in 51 days
1600Z Sat 20 Nov → 2359Z Sat 20 Nov · 7h 59m2027
in 415 days
1600Z Sat 18 Nov → 2359Z Sat 18 Nov · 7h 59m2028
in 779 days
1600Z Sat 17 Nov → 2359Z Sat 17 Nov · 7h 59m2029
in 1143 days
1600Z Sat 16 Nov → 2359Z Sat 16 Nov · 7h 59m2030
in 1507 days

Operating

Modes: CW
Bands: 160m
1810-2000 kHz in the German rules; the English rules say 1810-1950 kHz. Both are OEVSV's own statements and neither has been withdrawn.
Exchange: RST and a serial number; Austrian stations add their OE district identifier.
Logs: Cabrillo
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
'Teilnahmeberechtigt sind alle ... lizensierten Funkamateurinnen und -amateure sowie SWLs weltweit' -- all licensed amateurs and SWLs worldwide.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off ÖVSV's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-19.
What the source says: oevsv.at Regeln AOEC 160m (PDF, 2025 Ausschreibung). '3. TERMIN: Jeweils am dritten vollen Wochenende im NOVEMBER / Samstag 1600 UTC bis 2359 UTC / 15. November 2025' (Every year on the third full weekend in November, Saturday 1600 UTC to 2359 UTC). OEVSV's English edition of the same rules states the same rule independently: 'PERIOD: Third full weekend each November / Saturday 1600 - 2359 UTC'. Teilnahmeberechtigt: 'alle ... lizensierten Funkamateurinnen und -amateure sowie SWLs weltweit' (all licensed amateurs and SWLs worldwide). Betriebsart: CW only. Kontrollnummer: RST plus serial, with OE stations adding their district.
Recorded caveats: The third full weekend of November is a rule OEVSV states twice, in German and in English, and it reproduces the date the German edition prints for itself: November 2025's full weekends are the 1st/2nd, 8th/9th and 15th/16th, so the third is Saturday 15 November 2025. For 2026 the 1st is a Sunday whose Saturday belongs to October, so the full weekends start on the 7th/8th and the rule gives Saturday 21 November 2026. CONTRADICTIONS, recorded not reconciled: the German rules say 1810-2000 kHz and the English 1810-1950 kHz; the German rules take logs at aoec-auswertung.oevsv.at and the English at contestrobot.aoec160m.oevsv.at, so neither is encoded as the log_submit_url. The deadline is a fixed date (30 November), not an interval. BLOCKER: OEVSV's HF-Referat page still offers only the 2025 Ausschreibung, so this is the current published document and it is on the pending list to re-read.

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