DX Marathon "Sprint"

I wish to provide you with an announcement that I made in my presentation in Dayton. Your DX Marathon staff has agreed to do something special in a few months. As most of you know, we try to “think out of the box” and look for ways to make our program even more enjoyable for our participants and of course attract new participants. As a way to accomplish this objective, we have come up with a mini-Marathon or what we are calling a “Sprint” that will occur this Fall. We are still developing the rules but rest assurd, as is the case for our full Marathon, it will be made as simple as possible to attract new participants to our program and of course provide some fun for our regulars.
The Sprint will start on October 18, 2025 at 00:00Z. It will continue for 10 days and close on October 27, 2025 at 23:59Z We will have six classes, Unlimited, Limited, Formula (2) , and QRP (2) just as the rules state for 2025. Participants will have the option to select all modes, or you may select a single mode entry, CW, SSB, or Digital. All participants will receive a beautiful certificate showing their relative ranking in areas like world, zone, continent, callsign area, etc. No plaques will be issued. Our intentions is to see how this goes and if it has a positive outcome, we will plan on doing it again in the future.

Submissions will be made by the following Sunday (Nov 2) utilizing our submission tool on our website, exactly as you will do for the full Marathon.
You will generate and adif file from your logging program and upload that to the site. Entry in the Sprint will not constitute an entry into the year long DX Marathon so if you are new to the program, you can immediately go back to the submission page after the Sprint and input your adif file into the 2025 DX Marathon Program. You can use the same adif file.

In case you did not notice, we have wrapped the Sprint around the CQ Worldwide SSB contest that occurs on the weekend of October 25-26. We did this in hopes that contesters would try out the Marathon. Any DX worked during the contest of course can be claimed in the Sprint as long as it is logged at the same station used during the entire Sprint window.

We will have a rules posting later in the summer for further details. Come join us and try out the DX Marathon for 10 days! Please mark your calendars and plan to participate.

73 Mark WC3W