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  "contest": {
    "id": "sarl-qrp-spring",
    "name": "SARL QRP Contest (Spring leg)",
    "sponsor": "SARL",
    "sponsor_home": "https://mysarl.org.za/",
    "country": "ZA",
    "summary": "The spring leg of SARL's QRP series: two hours at five watts on 40, 20 and 10 m, scored with a power-and-distance bonus.",
    "modes": [
      "SSB",
      "CW"
    ],
    "bands": [
      "40m",
      "20m",
      "10m"
    ],
    "exchange": "Realistic RS(T), 6-character grid square and transmit power in watts (for example 57, KG33uk, 10).",
    "power_categories": [
      {
        "name": "QRP",
        "max_watts": 5
      }
    ],
    "log_format": "",
    "log_deadline_days": null,
    "log_submit_url": "",
    "timezone": "",
    "local_rolling": false,
    "eligibility": {
      "scope": "worldwide",
      "verified": true,
      "note": "The manual states no entry restriction for this contest."
    },
    "active_from": null,
    "active_until": null,
    "note": "The spring leg is the November one -- the seasons are southern hemisphere, so January is summer. One of SARL's four named QRP legs. They are four records rather than one because SARL names four legs by season and they do not share a clock: the Summer and Winter legs run 07:00-09:00 UTC and the Autumn and Spring legs 13:30-15:30, so no single start/end pair covers them. Grouping the two pairs by their times would have been this catalog inventing a structure SARL does not use. log_format and log_deadline_days are absent: this pass read each contest's Aim, Dates, Frequencies and Exchange sections and did not read its Log Sheets section, so neither is recorded rather than assumed from SARL's other contests.",
    "verified": true,
    "rules_url": "https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manual-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf",
    "rules_url_pattern": "",
    "rules_url_archived": "",
    "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19",
    "source_note": "2026 SARL Contest Manual Version 1.1 (2025-12-15), mysarl.org.za, https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manual-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf, 'The SARL QRP Contests': '1. Dates and times' gives four legs -- '1.1. Summer Leg: 3rd Saturday of January - 17 January 2026 - from 07:00 to 09:00 UTC 1.2. Autumn Leg: 1st Saturday of April - 4 April 2026 - from 13:30 to 15:30 UTC 1.3. Winter Leg: 3rd Saturday of July - 18 July 2026 - from 07:00 to 09:00 UTC 1.4. Spring Leg: 1st Saturday of November - 7 November 2026 - from 13:30 to 15:30 UTC'. Modes: '2.1. Any or all of two Modes: Phone SSB and/or CW'. Frequency: '3.1. 40m, 20m and 10m bands can be used at any time during the contest.' Exchange: '4.1. Realistic RS(T), 6-char Grid square and transmit power in watts (eg: 57, KG33uk, 10)'. Every date is checked against SARL's own Date Ordered List of Contests in the same manual, which states UTC directly, and against SARL-Contests-2026-Calendar.ics."
  },
  "rule": {
    "plain": "First Saturday of November",
    "raw": {
      "type": "nth_weekday",
      "month": 11,
      "n": 1,
      "weekday": 5
    },
    "start": {
      "day_offset": 0,
      "time": "1330"
    },
    "end": {
      "day_offset": 0,
      "time": "1530"
    },
    "sessions": null
  },
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      "contest_id": "sarl-qrp-spring",
      "name": "SARL QRP Contest (Spring leg)",
      "start": "2026-11-07T13:30:00Z",
      "end": "2026-11-07T15:30:00Z",
      "start_wall": null,
      "end_wall": null,
      "local_rolling": false,
      "timezone": "",
      "duration_hours": 2,
      "modes": [
        "SSB",
        "CW"
      ],
      "submodes": [],
      "bands": [
        "40m",
        "20m",
        "10m"
      ],
      "bands_note": "40m, 20m and 10m, any of them at any time during the contest. QRP calling frequencies 7.090, 14.285 and 28.360 MHz are suggested.",
      "sponsor": "SARL",
      "rules_url": "https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manual-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf",
      "verified": true,
      "note": "The spring leg is the November one -- the seasons are southern hemisphere, so January is summer. One of SARL's four named QRP legs. They are four records rather than one because SARL names four legs by season and they do not share a clock: the Summer and Winter legs run 07:00-09:00 UTC and the Autumn and Spring legs 13:30-15:30, so no single start/end pair covers them. Grouping the two pairs by their times would have been this catalog inventing a structure SARL does not use. log_format and log_deadline_days are absent: this pass read each contest's Aim, Dates, Frequencies and Exchange sections and did not read its Log Sheets section, so neither is recorded rather than assumed from SARL's other contests.",
      "exchange": "Realistic RS(T), 6-character grid square and transmit power in watts (for example 57, KG33uk, 10).",
      "country": "ZA",
      "rules_url_archived": "",
      "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19",
      "can_enter": true,
      "eligibility_scope": "worldwide",
      "eligibility_reason": "",
      "works": "everyone",
      "practical": "",
      "log_due": null,
      "uid": "sarl-qrp-spring-20261107T1330@contestcal",
      "start_date": "2026-11-07",
      "mode_families": [
        "CW",
        "SSB"
      ],
      "band_families": [
        "40m",
        "20m",
        "10m"
      ],
      "duration_bucket": "2-12"
    },
    {
      "contest_id": "sarl-qrp-spring",
      "name": "SARL QRP Contest (Spring leg)",
      "start": "2027-11-06T13:30:00Z",
      "end": "2027-11-06T15:30:00Z",
      "start_wall": null,
      "end_wall": null,
      "local_rolling": false,
      "timezone": "",
      "duration_hours": 2,
      "modes": [
        "SSB",
        "CW"
      ],
      "submodes": [],
      "bands": [
        "40m",
        "20m",
        "10m"
      ],
      "bands_note": "40m, 20m and 10m, any of them at any time during the contest. QRP calling frequencies 7.090, 14.285 and 28.360 MHz are suggested.",
      "sponsor": "SARL",
      "rules_url": "https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manual-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf",
      "verified": true,
      "note": "The spring leg is the November one -- the seasons are southern hemisphere, so January is summer. One of SARL's four named QRP legs. They are four records rather than one because SARL names four legs by season and they do not share a clock: the Summer and Winter legs run 07:00-09:00 UTC and the Autumn and Spring legs 13:30-15:30, so no single start/end pair covers them. Grouping the two pairs by their times would have been this catalog inventing a structure SARL does not use. log_format and log_deadline_days are absent: this pass read each contest's Aim, Dates, Frequencies and Exchange sections and did not read its Log Sheets section, so neither is recorded rather than assumed from SARL's other contests.",
      "exchange": "Realistic RS(T), 6-character grid square and transmit power in watts (for example 57, KG33uk, 10).",
      "country": "ZA",
      "rules_url_archived": "",
      "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19",
      "can_enter": true,
      "eligibility_scope": "worldwide",
      "eligibility_reason": "",
      "works": "everyone",
      "practical": "",
      "log_due": null,
      "uid": "sarl-qrp-spring-20271106T1330@contestcal",
      "start_date": "2027-11-06",
      "mode_families": [
        "CW",
        "SSB"
      ],
      "band_families": [
        "40m",
        "20m",
        "10m"
      ],
      "duration_bucket": "2-12"
    },
    {
      "contest_id": "sarl-qrp-spring",
      "name": "SARL QRP Contest (Spring leg)",
      "start": "2028-11-04T13:30:00Z",
      "end": "2028-11-04T15:30:00Z",
      "start_wall": null,
      "end_wall": null,
      "local_rolling": false,
      "timezone": "",
      "duration_hours": 2,
      "modes": [
        "SSB",
        "CW"
      ],
      "submodes": [],
      "bands": [
        "40m",
        "20m",
        "10m"
      ],
      "bands_note": "40m, 20m and 10m, any of them at any time during the contest. QRP calling frequencies 7.090, 14.285 and 28.360 MHz are suggested.",
      "sponsor": "SARL",
      "rules_url": "https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manual-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf",
      "verified": true,
      "note": "The spring leg is the November one -- the seasons are southern hemisphere, so January is summer. One of SARL's four named QRP legs. They are four records rather than one because SARL names four legs by season and they do not share a clock: the Summer and Winter legs run 07:00-09:00 UTC and the Autumn and Spring legs 13:30-15:30, so no single start/end pair covers them. Grouping the two pairs by their times would have been this catalog inventing a structure SARL does not use. log_format and log_deadline_days are absent: this pass read each contest's Aim, Dates, Frequencies and Exchange sections and did not read its Log Sheets section, so neither is recorded rather than assumed from SARL's other contests.",
      "exchange": "Realistic RS(T), 6-character grid square and transmit power in watts (for example 57, KG33uk, 10).",
      "country": "ZA",
      "rules_url_archived": "",
      "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19",
      "can_enter": true,
      "eligibility_scope": "worldwide",
      "eligibility_reason": "",
      "works": "everyone",
      "practical": "",
      "log_due": null,
      "uid": "sarl-qrp-spring-20281104T1330@contestcal",
      "start_date": "2028-11-04",
      "mode_families": [
        "CW",
        "SSB"
      ],
      "band_families": [
        "40m",
        "20m",
        "10m"
      ],
      "duration_bucket": "2-12"
    },
    {
      "contest_id": "sarl-qrp-spring",
      "name": "SARL QRP Contest (Spring leg)",
      "start": "2029-11-03T13:30:00Z",
      "end": "2029-11-03T15:30:00Z",
      "start_wall": null,
      "end_wall": null,
      "local_rolling": false,
      "timezone": "",
      "duration_hours": 2,
      "modes": [
        "SSB",
        "CW"
      ],
      "submodes": [],
      "bands": [
        "40m",
        "20m",
        "10m"
      ],
      "bands_note": "40m, 20m and 10m, any of them at any time during the contest. QRP calling frequencies 7.090, 14.285 and 28.360 MHz are suggested.",
      "sponsor": "SARL",
      "rules_url": "https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manual-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf",
      "verified": true,
      "note": "The spring leg is the November one -- the seasons are southern hemisphere, so January is summer. One of SARL's four named QRP legs. They are four records rather than one because SARL names four legs by season and they do not share a clock: the Summer and Winter legs run 07:00-09:00 UTC and the Autumn and Spring legs 13:30-15:30, so no single start/end pair covers them. Grouping the two pairs by their times would have been this catalog inventing a structure SARL does not use. log_format and log_deadline_days are absent: this pass read each contest's Aim, Dates, Frequencies and Exchange sections and did not read its Log Sheets section, so neither is recorded rather than assumed from SARL's other contests.",
      "exchange": "Realistic RS(T), 6-character grid square and transmit power in watts (for example 57, KG33uk, 10).",
      "country": "ZA",
      "rules_url_archived": "",
      "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19",
      "can_enter": true,
      "eligibility_scope": "worldwide",
      "eligibility_reason": "",
      "works": "everyone",
      "practical": "",
      "log_due": null,
      "uid": "sarl-qrp-spring-20291103T1330@contestcal",
      "start_date": "2029-11-03",
      "mode_families": [
        "CW",
        "SSB"
      ],
      "band_families": [
        "40m",
        "20m",
        "10m"
      ],
      "duration_bucket": "2-12"
    },
    {
      "contest_id": "sarl-qrp-spring",
      "name": "SARL QRP Contest (Spring leg)",
      "start": "2030-11-02T13:30:00Z",
      "end": "2030-11-02T15:30:00Z",
      "start_wall": null,
      "end_wall": null,
      "local_rolling": false,
      "timezone": "",
      "duration_hours": 2,
      "modes": [
        "SSB",
        "CW"
      ],
      "submodes": [],
      "bands": [
        "40m",
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        "10m"
      ],
      "bands_note": "40m, 20m and 10m, any of them at any time during the contest. QRP calling frequencies 7.090, 14.285 and 28.360 MHz are suggested.",
      "sponsor": "SARL",
      "rules_url": "https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manual-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf",
      "verified": true,
      "note": "The spring leg is the November one -- the seasons are southern hemisphere, so January is summer. One of SARL's four named QRP legs. They are four records rather than one because SARL names four legs by season and they do not share a clock: the Summer and Winter legs run 07:00-09:00 UTC and the Autumn and Spring legs 13:30-15:30, so no single start/end pair covers them. Grouping the two pairs by their times would have been this catalog inventing a structure SARL does not use. log_format and log_deadline_days are absent: this pass read each contest's Aim, Dates, Frequencies and Exchange sections and did not read its Log Sheets section, so neither is recorded rather than assumed from SARL's other contests.",
      "exchange": "Realistic RS(T), 6-character grid square and transmit power in watts (for example 57, KG33uk, 10).",
      "country": "ZA",
      "rules_url_archived": "",
      "rules_url_checked": "2026-08-19",
      "can_enter": true,
      "eligibility_scope": "worldwide",
      "eligibility_reason": "",
      "works": "everyone",
      "practical": "",
      "log_due": null,
      "uid": "sarl-qrp-spring-20301102T1330@contestcal",
      "start_date": "2030-11-02",
      "mode_families": [
        "CW",
        "SSB"
      ],
      "band_families": [
        "40m",
        "20m",
        "10m"
      ],
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    }
  ]
}