{ "contest": { "id": "rsgb-afs-ssb", "name": "RSGB AFS Contest, SSB", "sponsor": "RSGB Contest Committee", "sponsor_home": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/", "country": "GB", "summary": "Four hours of SSB on 80 and 40 m for RSGB affiliated club teams, in January.", "modes": [ "SSB" ], "bands": [ "80m", "40m" ], "exchange": "RS(T) plus a serial number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1, irrespective of band.", "power_categories": [ { "name": "Maximum licenced power", "max_watts": null }, { "name": "100 W", "max_watts": 100 }, { "name": "10 W", "max_watts": 10 } ], "log_format": "", "log_deadline_days": null, "log_submit_url": "", "timezone": "", "local_rolling": false, "eligibility": { "scope": "entity_list", "entities": [ "G" ], "verified": true, "note": "'Clubs entering these contests must be affiliated to the RSGB' and 'A club may be represented by any number of stations, all of whom must be within the UK&CD' -- the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies. Stations elsewhere may be worked but cannot enter." }, "active_from": null, "active_until": null, "note": "ALL THREE HANG OFF ONE ANCHOR, WHICH IS WHAT FIVE YEARS OF RSGB'S DATES SHOW. The AFS CW Saturday is the anchor; Datamodes is the Sunday eight days later and SSB the Saturday fourteen days later. No consistent ordinal describes Datamodes on its own -- it is the third Sunday in 2022 and 2023 and the second in 2024, 2025 and 2026 -- so encoding it as an ordinal would have been wrong in two of the five years RSGB published.\n\nTHE 1 JANUARY EXCEPTION IS EVIDENCED, NOT ASSUMED. 1 January 2022 was itself a Saturday and RSGB ran AFS CW on the 8th, so `exclude_dates: [[1, 1]]` is what reproduces that year -- the same shape ARRL RTTY Roundup states outright for its own New Year clash. RSGB does not state it in words, but unlike TRAC's equivalent this is not a single year's evidence fitted to a rule: it is the only reading that fits all five years across all three contests. It next decides anything in 2028.", "verified": true, "rules_url": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2026/rafs.shtml", "rules_url_pattern": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/{year}/rafs.shtml", "rules_url_archived": "", "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19", "source_note": "rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2026/rafs.shtml, the RSGB Contest Committee's own rules, which cover three contests at once: 'There are four HF AFS Contests annually - the Rules below apply to the AFS CW, SSB and Datamodes contests on 80m & 40m.' '2. Date & Time: AFS CW - Saturday 3 January 2026, 1300-1700 UTC. AFS Datamodes - Sunday 11 January 2026 1300-1700 UTC. AFS SSB - Saturday 17 January 2026, 1300-1700 UTC.' This record is the SSB leg. Entrants: '(a) Clubs entering these contests must be affiliated to the RSGB (b) A club may be represented by any number of stations, all of whom must be within the UK&CD'. Exchange: 'RS(T) plus Serial Number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1, irrespective of band'. Power sections: maximum licenced power, 100 W and 10 W. RSGB keeps a rules page per year, so five years of its own dates check the rule: AFS CW ran 8 Jan 2022, 7 Jan 2023, 6 Jan 2024, 4 Jan 2025 and 3 Jan 2026; Datamodes 16, 15, 14, 12 and 11 January; SSB 22, 21, 20, 18 and 17 January. All fifteen are reproduced by one anchor -- the first Saturday of January, skipping 1 January -- at offsets of 0, 8 and 14 days." }, "rule": { "plain": "First Saturday of January, except when that falls on 1 January — then the weekend after", "raw": { "type": "nth_weekday", "month": 1, "n": 1, "weekday": 5, "exclude_dates": [ [ 1, 1 ] ] }, "start": { "day_offset": 14, "time": "1300" }, "end": { "day_offset": 14, "time": "1700" }, "sessions": null }, "next": [ { "contest_id": "rsgb-afs-ssb", "name": "RSGB AFS Contest, SSB", "start": "2027-01-16T13:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-16T17:00:00Z", "start_wall": null, "end_wall": null, "local_rolling": false, "timezone": "", "duration_hours": 4, "modes": [ "SSB" ], "submodes": [], "bands": [ "80m", "40m" ], "bands_note": "80 m and 40 m. CW 3510-3570 and 7000-7040 kHz; SSB 3600-3775 and 7060-7200 kHz; PSK63 3580-3590 and 7040-7045 kHz; RTTY 3590-3620 and 7045-7060 kHz.", "sponsor": "RSGB Contest Committee", "rules_url": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2027/rafs.shtml", "verified": true, "note": "ALL THREE HANG OFF ONE ANCHOR, WHICH IS WHAT FIVE YEARS OF RSGB'S DATES SHOW. The AFS CW Saturday is the anchor; Datamodes is the Sunday eight days later and SSB the Saturday fourteen days later. No consistent ordinal describes Datamodes on its own -- it is the third Sunday in 2022 and 2023 and the second in 2024, 2025 and 2026 -- so encoding it as an ordinal would have been wrong in two of the five years RSGB published.\n\nTHE 1 JANUARY EXCEPTION IS EVIDENCED, NOT ASSUMED. 1 January 2022 was itself a Saturday and RSGB ran AFS CW on the 8th, so `exclude_dates: [[1, 1]]` is what reproduces that year -- the same shape ARRL RTTY Roundup states outright for its own New Year clash. RSGB does not state it in words, but unlike TRAC's equivalent this is not a single year's evidence fitted to a rule: it is the only reading that fits all five years across all three contests. It next decides anything in 2028.", "exchange": "RS(T) plus a serial number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1, irrespective of band.", "country": "GB", "rules_url_archived": "", "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19", "can_enter": false, "eligibility_scope": "entity_list", "eligibility_reason": "Entry limited to G. K stations may be worked but cannot submit an entry.", "works": "everyone", "practical": "", "log_due": null, "uid": "rsgb-afs-ssb-20270116T1300@contestcal", "start_date": "2027-01-16", "mode_families": [ "SSB" ], "band_families": [ "80m", "40m" ], "duration_bucket": "2-12" }, { "contest_id": "rsgb-afs-ssb", "name": "RSGB AFS Contest, SSB", "start": "2028-01-22T13:00:00Z", "end": "2028-01-22T17:00:00Z", "start_wall": null, "end_wall": null, "local_rolling": false, "timezone": "", "duration_hours": 4, "modes": [ "SSB" ], "submodes": [], "bands": [ "80m", "40m" ], "bands_note": "80 m and 40 m. CW 3510-3570 and 7000-7040 kHz; SSB 3600-3775 and 7060-7200 kHz; PSK63 3580-3590 and 7040-7045 kHz; RTTY 3590-3620 and 7045-7060 kHz.", "sponsor": "RSGB Contest Committee", "rules_url": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2028/rafs.shtml", "verified": true, "note": "ALL THREE HANG OFF ONE ANCHOR, WHICH IS WHAT FIVE YEARS OF RSGB'S DATES SHOW. The AFS CW Saturday is the anchor; Datamodes is the Sunday eight days later and SSB the Saturday fourteen days later. No consistent ordinal describes Datamodes on its own -- it is the third Sunday in 2022 and 2023 and the second in 2024, 2025 and 2026 -- so encoding it as an ordinal would have been wrong in two of the five years RSGB published.\n\nTHE 1 JANUARY EXCEPTION IS EVIDENCED, NOT ASSUMED. 1 January 2022 was itself a Saturday and RSGB ran AFS CW on the 8th, so `exclude_dates: [[1, 1]]` is what reproduces that year -- the same shape ARRL RTTY Roundup states outright for its own New Year clash. RSGB does not state it in words, but unlike TRAC's equivalent this is not a single year's evidence fitted to a rule: it is the only reading that fits all five years across all three contests. It next decides anything in 2028.", "exchange": "RS(T) plus a serial number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1, irrespective of band.", "country": "GB", "rules_url_archived": "", "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19", "can_enter": false, "eligibility_scope": "entity_list", "eligibility_reason": "Entry limited to G. K stations may be worked but cannot submit an entry.", "works": "everyone", "practical": "", "log_due": null, "uid": "rsgb-afs-ssb-20280122T1300@contestcal", "start_date": "2028-01-22", "mode_families": [ "SSB" ], "band_families": [ "80m", "40m" ], "duration_bucket": "2-12" }, { "contest_id": "rsgb-afs-ssb", "name": "RSGB AFS Contest, SSB", "start": "2029-01-20T13:00:00Z", "end": "2029-01-20T17:00:00Z", "start_wall": null, "end_wall": null, "local_rolling": false, "timezone": "", "duration_hours": 4, "modes": [ "SSB" ], "submodes": [], "bands": [ "80m", "40m" ], "bands_note": "80 m and 40 m. CW 3510-3570 and 7000-7040 kHz; SSB 3600-3775 and 7060-7200 kHz; PSK63 3580-3590 and 7040-7045 kHz; RTTY 3590-3620 and 7045-7060 kHz.", "sponsor": "RSGB Contest Committee", "rules_url": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2029/rafs.shtml", "verified": true, "note": "ALL THREE HANG OFF ONE ANCHOR, WHICH IS WHAT FIVE YEARS OF RSGB'S DATES SHOW. The AFS CW Saturday is the anchor; Datamodes is the Sunday eight days later and SSB the Saturday fourteen days later. No consistent ordinal describes Datamodes on its own -- it is the third Sunday in 2022 and 2023 and the second in 2024, 2025 and 2026 -- so encoding it as an ordinal would have been wrong in two of the five years RSGB published.\n\nTHE 1 JANUARY EXCEPTION IS EVIDENCED, NOT ASSUMED. 1 January 2022 was itself a Saturday and RSGB ran AFS CW on the 8th, so `exclude_dates: [[1, 1]]` is what reproduces that year -- the same shape ARRL RTTY Roundup states outright for its own New Year clash. RSGB does not state it in words, but unlike TRAC's equivalent this is not a single year's evidence fitted to a rule: it is the only reading that fits all five years across all three contests. It next decides anything in 2028.", "exchange": "RS(T) plus a serial number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1, irrespective of band.", "country": "GB", "rules_url_archived": "", "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19", "can_enter": false, "eligibility_scope": "entity_list", "eligibility_reason": "Entry limited to G. K stations may be worked but cannot submit an entry.", "works": "everyone", "practical": "", "log_due": null, "uid": "rsgb-afs-ssb-20290120T1300@contestcal", "start_date": "2029-01-20", "mode_families": [ "SSB" ], "band_families": [ "80m", "40m" ], "duration_bucket": "2-12" }, { "contest_id": "rsgb-afs-ssb", "name": "RSGB AFS Contest, SSB", "start": "2030-01-19T13:00:00Z", "end": "2030-01-19T17:00:00Z", "start_wall": null, "end_wall": null, "local_rolling": false, "timezone": "", "duration_hours": 4, "modes": [ "SSB" ], "submodes": [], "bands": [ "80m", "40m" ], "bands_note": "80 m and 40 m. CW 3510-3570 and 7000-7040 kHz; SSB 3600-3775 and 7060-7200 kHz; PSK63 3580-3590 and 7040-7045 kHz; RTTY 3590-3620 and 7045-7060 kHz.", "sponsor": "RSGB Contest Committee", "rules_url": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2030/rafs.shtml", "verified": true, "note": "ALL THREE HANG OFF ONE ANCHOR, WHICH IS WHAT FIVE YEARS OF RSGB'S DATES SHOW. The AFS CW Saturday is the anchor; Datamodes is the Sunday eight days later and SSB the Saturday fourteen days later. No consistent ordinal describes Datamodes on its own -- it is the third Sunday in 2022 and 2023 and the second in 2024, 2025 and 2026 -- so encoding it as an ordinal would have been wrong in two of the five years RSGB published.\n\nTHE 1 JANUARY EXCEPTION IS EVIDENCED, NOT ASSUMED. 1 January 2022 was itself a Saturday and RSGB ran AFS CW on the 8th, so `exclude_dates: [[1, 1]]` is what reproduces that year -- the same shape ARRL RTTY Roundup states outright for its own New Year clash. RSGB does not state it in words, but unlike TRAC's equivalent this is not a single year's evidence fitted to a rule: it is the only reading that fits all five years across all three contests. It next decides anything in 2028.", "exchange": "RS(T) plus a serial number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1, irrespective of band.", "country": "GB", "rules_url_archived": "", "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19", "can_enter": false, "eligibility_scope": "entity_list", "eligibility_reason": "Entry limited to G. K stations may be worked but cannot submit an entry.", "works": "everyone", "practical": "", "log_due": null, "uid": "rsgb-afs-ssb-20300119T1300@contestcal", "start_date": "2030-01-19", "mode_families": [ "SSB" ], "band_families": [ "80m", "40m" ], "duration_bucket": "2-12" } ] }