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    "id": "jarl-acag",
    "name": "All Cities All Counties Contest (ACAG)",
    "sponsor": "JARL",
    "sponsor_home": "https://www.jarl.org/",
    "country": "JP",
    "summary": "All Cities All Counties: 24 hours from 2100 JST on the Saturday of Japan's Sports Day weekend, with cities, counties and wards as the multiplier.",
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    "exchange": "RST, the city, county or ward number for where you are operating, and one letter for power. Tokyo's Toshima ward at high power sends 59 100116 H.",
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    "log_deadline_days": null,
    "log_submit_url": "",
    "timezone": "Asia/Tokyo",
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      "entities": [
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      "note": "'2 参加資格 日本国内のアマチュア局およびSWL（アマチュア局の電波を受信する個人をいう）' -- amateur stations within Japan, and SWLs. All four of JARL's domestic contests carry the same clause. A JA station can be WORKED from anywhere, which is why the record exists; entry is the part that is restricted."
    },
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    "active_until": null,
    "note": "THE ONLY RULE IN THE CATALOG ANCHORED ON A PUBLIC HOLIDAY AND COUNTED BACKWARDS. Japan's Sports Day is the second Monday of October, and JARL hangs the contest on the weekend before it -- 前々日 and 前日, two days before and one day before. It is encoded exactly that way, with negative day offsets from a Monday anchor, rather than as 'the second full weekend of October', which would be a different rule that happens to agree in some years. Encoded as wall_clock in Asia/Tokyo because that is how JARL states it -- 21時00分（JST） -- rather than converted to a fixed UTC time by hand. Japan has not observed daylight saving since 1952, so the two are identical in practice and will stay so; the record says what the sponsor said and lets the engine do the arithmetic. log_deadline_days is absent. JARL prints a dated deadline above the rules for the edition in hand -- ALL JA 2026 is '提出締切日 2026年5月6日（水）必着' -- and the numbered 規約 clauses that follow state the dates, eligibility, bands, categories and exchange but no submission span. All four of JARL's 2026 deadlines happen to fall exactly ten days after their contest ends, which is suggestive and is not a rule JARL wrote. The same reasoning already keeps a deadline off JARL's All Asian records.",
    "verified": true,
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    "rules_url_pattern": "",
    "rules_url_archived": "",
    "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19",
    "source_note": "jarl.org, 第47回 全市全郡コンテスト規約: '1 開催日時 毎年10月第2月曜日の前々日の21時00分から前日の21時00分（JST）まで。' -- from 21:00 two days before the SECOND MONDAY of October until 21:00 the day before it. The 2026 running is stated separately as '2026年10月10日（土）21時00分（JST）から10月11日（日）21時00分（JST）まで', which the rule reproduces: the second Monday of October 2026 is the 12th."
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      "exchange": "RST, the city, county or ward number for where you are operating, and one letter for power. Tokyo's Toshima ward at high power sends 59 100116 H.",
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      "exchange": "RST, the city, county or ward number for where you are operating, and one letter for power. Tokyo's Toshima ward at high power sends 59 100116 H.",
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