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    "name": "SARL Equinox 6m African DX Entity Challenge (March)",
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    "sponsor_home": "https://mysarl.org.za/",
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    "summary": "A month of 6m FT8 around the equinox, scoring DX entities worked and confirmed, open worldwide.",
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    "timezone": "",
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      "note": "'1.6. The Contest is open to all licensed Radio Amateurs worldwide.'"
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    "verified": true,
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    "rules_url_archived": "",
    "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19",
    "source_note": "2026 SARL Contest Manual Version 1.1 (2025-12-15), mysarl.org.za, 'SARL Equinox 6m African DX Entity Challenge': '2. Dates: Two challenges, each one month long over each equinox: 2.1. From 00:01UTC on the 16th March to 23:59 UTC on 15th April. 2.2. From 00:01UTC on the 16th September to 23:59 UTC on 15th October.' Aim: '1.6. The Contest is open to all licensed Radio Amateurs worldwide.' Mode: '3. Frequency: FT8 mode on the 6m band.' Contacts: '4.1. Contacts must be two-way point to point. Stations shall exchange signal reports.' Checked against SARL's own published dates as well as its rules: SARL publishes SARL-Contests-2026-Calendar.ics on the same page, whose times carry TZID=\"South Africa Standard Time\" (a fixed +0200, no DST -- its own X-CALSTART confirms 09:00 local as 07:00Z). That calendar is an independent second source for every date encoded here."
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