{
  "contest": {
    "id": "alabama-qso-party",
    "name": "Alabama QSO Party",
    "sponsor": "Alabama Contest Group",
    "sponsor_home": "https://alabamacontestgroup.org/aqp/",
    "country": "US",
    "summary": "Alabama's July party: one 12-hour CW and phone session, county multipliers.",
    "modes": [
      "SSB",
      "CW"
    ],
    "bands": [],
    "exchange": "Alabama stations send RS(T) and county; others send RS(T) and state, province or DX.",
    "power_categories": [],
    "log_format": "",
    "log_deadline_days": null,
    "log_submit_url": "",
    "timezone": "",
    "local_rolling": false,
    "eligibility": {
      "scope": "worldwide",
      "verified": true,
      "note": ""
    },
    "active_from": null,
    "active_until": null,
    "note": "Bands are not listed on the page in a form usable here (no WARC, no 160 stated), so bands are left empty (unrecorded). Digital modes are not mentioned.\n\nMANUAL AND UNVERIFIED BECAUSE A PUBLISHED DATE IS NOT A RULE. The sponsor states the dates for the year(s) listed and no recurrence wording, so none is invented here; the next announcement settles it.",
    "verified": false,
    "rules_url": "https://alabamacontestgroup.org/aqp/rules/",
    "rules_url_pattern": "",
    "rules_url_archived": "",
    "rules_url_checked": "2026-10-15",
    "source_note": "Sponsor's own rules (https://alabamacontestgroup.org/aqp/rules/), read 2026-10-15: 1500Z 25 Jul to 0300Z 26 Jul 2026; the landing page is stale (2024) and says rules are the same as 2025. CW/Phone only; no digital is mentioned."
  },
  "rule": {
    "plain": "Dates set by the sponsor each year (no derivable rule)",
    "raw": {
      "type": "manual",
      "dates": {
        "2026": [
          "2026-07-25"
        ]
      }
    },
    "start": {
      "day_offset": 0,
      "time": "1500"
    },
    "end": {
      "day_offset": 1,
      "time": "0300"
    },
    "sessions": null
  },
  "next": []
}