1. Date:

Tuesday, 5 May 2026, 0700 to 1700 UTC.

2. Participation classes:

(A) HF only

(B) VHF/UHF only, also via repeater, Echolink and digital voice

(C) Connections via QO-100 or other satellites

Schools*, universities and individual OM/YLs* are distinguished. STEM educational institutions (e.g. tech museums and educational associations) can also participate and will be treated as schools.

*) School stations that are not operated by pupils/students (e.g. run by teachers, instructors) are considered as individual OM/YL. However, they can be counted as school stations for the other station.

3. Goal:

As many contacts as possible with stations from all over Europe, especially school stations or training stations. The connections can be made in phone or digital modes. Valid digital modes are only those for which keyboard input is necessary during the QSO (i.e. PSK31 yes, FT8/FT4 no), except digital voice.

It should be pointed out in the call that you are operating from a school station. A station can be worked several times per class, but only counts once for the log.

4. Frequencies:

All frequencies permitted according to the band plan for IARU Region 1 may be used.

For shortwave contacts, the following QRGs are recommended as meeting points (+/- band occupancy) in SSB: 80m - 3,770 MHz, 40m - 7,170 MHz, 20m - 14,270 MHz

5. Exchange:

Call sign, RS(T), Maidenhead locator, first name, age*, name of school*

*) Should be exchanged, but do not have to be logged.

6. Evaluation:

Classes A, B and C: Calculation of the distance for each QSO with European stations. Multiplication of this total by the number of European countries reached (WAE list). For class C, the terrestrial distance applies.

The evaluation is carried out for the respective call sign under which the log was submitted.

Additional scores will appear as stickers on the certificate of participation:

• for the longest single distance, including contacts outside Europe (Class A and B only)

• for contacts with DP0GVN and other stations in antarctica (Class C only)

• for the most cross-border QSOs

• for the lowest average age of operators in the team (each team member must have made at least 1 QSO!)

• for the most member countries of the Council of Europe reached

• for the most school stations reached

7. Logs:

The use of computer programmes for evaluating and calculating distances is appreciated, but logs should be submitted in a readable ASCII (.TXT) format. Logs in other formats (e.g. ADIF) will not be accepted. We recommend using the HAMEUTAG programme from ARCOMM, which can be downloaded and used free of charge at http://www.qslonline.de/hk/download/hameutag.zip (German version) and http://www.qslonline.de/hk/download/hameutag_eng.zip (English version).

Forms for keeping paper logs can be downloaded from the AATiS homepage.

Required information in the header of the log:

Callsigns, Name(s) and age of the OPs, participation class, name and type of school or university, location (Maidenhead locator), sender's postal address and current e-mail address.

Log entries for each connection:

Time (UTC), call sign, RS(T), frequency or band, mode, Maidenhead locator, first name, identification of school stations, distance for each connection (calculated automatically when using HAMEUTAG, but not for non-European stations).

Please indicate the best DX (= furthest station with call sign and distance) separately.

8. Submissions:

No later than two weeks after Europe Day, send your entries by e-mail to europatag [at] aatis.de. Then you will receive the confirmation in electronic form (PDF certificates).

9. Prizes/Certificates:

All entrants will receive their certificates as PDF files by e-mail. Mystery boxes containing AATiS media will be raffled off among entrants who have submitted correctly completed, valid log extracts.