The ‘General Contest Rules’ of the DARC e.V. apply in the version published on the pages of DARC e.V. Referat Conteste
 
Organiser: DARC e.V. Referat Conteste
Date: Quarterly, every third month of a quarter, every second tuesday
Date  & Time:

Stations to be worked: all, each once
Bands: 80m
Modes: CW
Note: as this is a training contest, the CW speed should be between 12 and 22 WPM.
Categories:
SOP LP (max. 100 watts out)
Checklog
Exchange:
German stations send RST and their DOK, or "NM" (no member) if they are not a DARC member. NM does not count as a multiplier.
Other stations send: RST + serial number. 
If a station does not send serial numbers, 000 is to be logged.
Scoring: 1 point per QSO
Multiplieres: 1 point per new prefix and per new DOK
Final score: sum of QSO points times sum of multiplier points
Logs: Only electronically in Cabrillo format; 
upload to: https://dxhf2.darc.de/~accwlog/upload.cgi?form=referat&lang=de
Note: All log programs that support the DARC Christmas Contest (XMAS) can be used, as the rules are basically identical.