{
  "contest": {
    "id": "kcj-top-band",
    "name": "KCJ Top Band Contest",
    "sponsor": "Keymen's Club of Japan",
    "sponsor_home": "https://kcj-cw.com/",
    "country": "JP",
    "summary": "Keymen's Club of Japan's 160 m CW contest in February.",
    "modes": [
      "CW"
    ],
    "bands": [
      "160m"
    ],
    "exchange": "Japanese stations send RST and prefecture/district code (e.g. 599 TK); DX stations send RST and CQ zone",
    "power_categories": [],
    "log_format": "Cabrillo",
    "log_deadline_days": 16,
    "log_submit_url": "",
    "timezone": "",
    "local_rolling": false,
    "eligibility": {
      "scope": "worldwide",
      "verified": true,
      "note": "KCJ rules invite stations in Japan and overseas; DX stations work Japanese stations."
    },
    "active_from": null,
    "active_until": null,
    "note": "DATES ARE STATED PER EDITION; THE SPONSOR PUBLISHES NO RECURRENCE RULE. Only the dates the sponsor has actually published are encoded (2023-02-11, 2024-02-10, 2025-02-08, 2026-02-14); a year it has not announced yields nothing rather than a guess. If a stated rule turns up, this record upgrades from manual.",
    "verified": true,
    "rules_url": "https://kcj-cw.com/php/contest_info.php?k=dx",
    "rules_url_pattern": "",
    "rules_url_archived": "",
    "rules_url_checked": "2026-10-15",
    "source_note": "kcj-cw.com rules PDFs and contest_info page: CW, 160 m, 1200Z Saturday to 1200Z Sunday; starts 2023-02-11, 2024-02-10, 2025-02-08, 2026-02-14 (42nd). 2026 was NOT 7 February, which is why no ordinal is encoded. Log deadline 1500Z 2 Mar 2026, 16 days after the end. Read 2026-10-15."
  },
  "rule": {
    "plain": "Dates set by the sponsor each year (no derivable rule)",
    "raw": {
      "type": "manual",
      "dates": {
        "2023": [
          "2023-02-11"
        ],
        "2024": [
          "2024-02-10"
        ],
        "2025": [
          "2025-02-08"
        ],
        "2026": [
          "2026-02-14"
        ]
      }
    },
    "start": {
      "day_offset": 0,
      "time": "1200"
    },
    "end": {
      "day_offset": 1,
      "time": "1200"
    },
    "sessions": null
  },
  "next": []
}