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    "name": "RSGB National Field Day (CW)",
    "sponsor": "RSGB Contest Committee",
    "sponsor_home": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/",
    "country": "GB",
    "summary": "Twenty-four hours of portable CW over the first June weekend, RSGB's oldest field day.",
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    "timezone": "",
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      "note": "'This contest is primarily intended for RSGB Members and Affiliated Societies. Non-Members may only enter as part of an Affiliated Society multi-operator team, or if they are entering as a single operator on behalf of an Affiliated Society.' Entry is effectively through a UK club; stations elsewhere may be worked."
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    "note": "2024 IS THE YEAR THAT SETTLES THE RULE. 1 June 2024 was itself a Saturday and RSGB used it, so this contest has NO first-of-the-month exception -- unlike the RSGB AFS contests, where 1 January 2022 was a Saturday and the contest moved a week. Two contests from the same committee, two different answers, and only the published dates distinguish them. RSGB keeps a rules page per year, so its own dates check its own rule. Four years were read for this record -- 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 -- and the recurrence reproduces all of them.",
    "verified": true,
    "rules_url": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2026/rnfd.shtml",
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    "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-20",
    "source_note": "rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2026/rnfd.shtml, 'RSGB Field Day Contests', which covers both: 'CW FD (NFD) - Saturday 6 - Sunday 7 June 2026 1500-1500 UTC. SSB FD - Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 September 2026 1300-1300 UTC.' Frequencies and modes: 'CW FD - 160, 80, 40, 20, 15, 10m - CW only.' Entrants: 'This contest is primarily intended for RSGB Members and Affiliated Societies. Non-Members may only enter as part of an Affiliated Society multi-operator team, or if they are entering as a single operator on behalf of an Affiliated Society.' RSGB's own dates for four years: 3 Jun 2023, 1 Jun 2024, 7 Jun 2025 and 6 Jun 2026 -- the first Saturday of June each time."
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      "month": 6,
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      "weekday": 5
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      "time": "1500"
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    "end": {
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      "time": "1500"
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      "exchange": "RS(T) plus a serial number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1, irrespective of band.",
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      "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-20",
      "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",
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      "end": "2028-06-04T15:00:00Z",
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      "exchange": "RS(T) plus a serial number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1, irrespective of band.",
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      "end": "2029-06-03T15:00:00Z",
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      "sponsor": "RSGB Contest Committee",
      "rules_url": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2029/rnfd.shtml",
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      "exchange": "RS(T) plus a serial number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1, irrespective of band.",
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      "end": "2030-06-02T15:00:00Z",
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      "sponsor": "RSGB Contest Committee",
      "rules_url": "https://www.rsgbcc.org/hf/rules/2030/rnfd.shtml",
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      "note": "2024 IS THE YEAR THAT SETTLES THE RULE. 1 June 2024 was itself a Saturday and RSGB used it, so this contest has NO first-of-the-month exception -- unlike the RSGB AFS contests, where 1 January 2022 was a Saturday and the contest moved a week. Two contests from the same committee, two different answers, and only the published dates distinguish them. RSGB keeps a rules page per year, so its own dates check its own rule. Four years were read for this record -- 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 -- and the recurrence reproduces all of them.",
      "exchange": "RS(T) plus a serial number starting at 1 and incrementing by 1, irrespective of band.",
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