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    "summary": "USKA's Christmas contest on 80m and 40m: a SSB morning on the first Saturday of December, then a digital hour. Cantons are the exchange.",
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      "note": "The Reglement announces the contest 'fuer Funkamateure sowie Empfangsamateure in der Schweiz' and requires 'Der Standort muss sich in der Schweiz befinden.'"
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    "note": "USKA runs the Weihnachtswettbewerb on two Saturdays, and each Saturday is a phone-or-CW morning followed by a separate digital hour. This record is the first Saturday: SSB 07:00-09:59 UTC and digital 10:00-10:59 UTC, encoded as two sessions because the hour between them is not part of the contest. The two Saturdays are two records because they are different modes, not two legs of one event. The first Saturday of December 2026 is the 5th and the second the 12th, the dates USKA's KW-Contest page prints. USKA states no log deadline in this Reglement -- the other three KW Reglemente all say 'innert 8 Tagen' and this one says nothing at all -- so no interval is encoded rather than one borrowed from its siblings.",
    "verified": true,
    "rules_url": "https://uska.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-04-Reglement-fuer-den-Weihnachtswettbewerb-Ausgabe-Mai-2026-DE.pdf",
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    "rules_url_archived": "",
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    "source_note": "uska.ch Reglement fuer den Weihnachtswettbewerb, Ausgabe Mai 2026. 2.1 Datum und Zeit: 'SSB: Erster Samstag im Dezember, 07:00 bis 09:59 UTC / CW: Zweiter Samstag im Dezember, 07:00 bis 09:59 UTC / Digital: Erster und zweiter Samstag im Dezember, 10:00 bis 10:59 UTC.' (SSB: first Saturday in December; CW: second Saturday in December, both 07:00-09:59 UTC; Digital: first and second Saturday in December, 10:00-10:59 UTC.) 2.4 Baender: '80 m und 40 m'. 2.5 Kontrollaustausch: RS(T) and the canton abbreviation. Eligibility: 'Der Weihnachtwettbewerb wird fuer Funkamateure sowie Empfangsamateure in der Schweiz ausgeschrieben' and 'Der Standort muss sich in der Schweiz befinden.' Digital is defined in the Reglement: 'Digital - Damit sind Modes wie RTTY, PSK31, PSK63, FT4 und FT8 gemeint. Cabrillo Tag fuer RTTY = RY, bzw. PSK31, PSK63, FT4 und FT8 = DG' (Digital means modes such as RTTY, PSK31, PSK63, FT4 and FT8; the Cabrillo tag for RTTY is RY, and DG for PSK31, PSK63, FT4 and FT8). USKA's own KW-Contest page (uska.ch/kw-contest/) prints the 2026 dates separately from the Reglemente: Helvetia 25.-26. April, Field Day 6.-7. Juni and 5.-6. September, NMD 19. Juli, Weihnachtswettbewerb 5. und 12. Dezember. Every one of them is reproduced by the encoded rule."
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      "time": "0700"
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      "time": "0959"
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