{
  "contest": {
    "id": "arlhs-spring-lights",
    "name": "ARLHS Spring Lights QSO Party",
    "sponsor": "ARLHS",
    "sponsor_home": "https://arlhs.com/",
    "country": "US",
    "summary": "A week-long April QSO party for lighthouse activators and chasers, run by the US Lighthouse Society.",
    "modes": [
      "Mixed"
    ],
    "bands": [],
    "exchange": "Optional serial number plus QTH (lighthouse number, state, province or DX). Members: call, member number, state. Non-members: call, name, state.",
    "power_categories": [],
    "log_format": "",
    "log_deadline_days": null,
    "log_submit_url": "",
    "timezone": "",
    "local_rolling": false,
    "eligibility": {
      "scope": "worldwide",
      "verified": false,
      "note": "No eligibility statement found on the page."
    },
    "active_from": null,
    "active_until": null,
    "note": "Bands: Unrecorded: the rules contradict themselves (section 1: 160m and up with no WARC credit; section 2: 'any and all bands'). No recurrence is stated, so this is a manual record holding the one published 2026 running (eight days, 2 to 9 April). The default clock spans the week; the per-date entry restates the first day. Bands contradict themselves in the rules, so none is recorded. No log method or deadline is stated.",
    "verified": false,
    "rules_url": "https://arlhs.com/events/spring-lights-qso-party/",
    "rules_url_pattern": "",
    "rules_url_archived": "",
    "rules_url_checked": "2026-10-15",
    "source_note": "arlhs.com/events/spring-lights-qso-party/: 2026 running '2 Apr 0000Z - 9 Apr 2400Z'; the FAQ says only 'generally held in April'. Any mode that carries the exchange. Read 2026-10-15."
  },
  "rule": {
    "plain": "Dates set by the sponsor each year (no derivable rule)",
    "raw": {
      "type": "manual",
      "dates": {
        "2026": [
          {
            "date": "2026-04-02",
            "start": "0000",
            "end": "2359"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "start": {
      "day_offset": 0,
      "time": "0000"
    },
    "end": {
      "day_offset": 7,
      "time": "2359"
    },
    "sessions": null
  },
  "next": []
}