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X-WR-CALNAME:Amateur Radio Contests (International FT Challenge)
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 ed: International FT Challenge. Dates are computed from each sponsor's own
  published rules. Times are UTC instants\; events marked TENTATIVE have no
 t been verified against the sponsor's page yet.
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DTSTART:20261205T180000Z
DTEND:20261206T235900Z
SUMMARY:International FT Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Sponsor: International FT Challenge\nModes: FT8/FT4 (FT4\, FT8)
 \nBands: 80m\, 40m\, 20m\, 15m\, 10m\nBand note: Five bands only: 80\, 40\
 , 20\, 15 and 10 meters.\nDuration: 29h 59m\nExchange: A four-character Ma
 idenhead grid square and SNR. A missing grid square defaults to ZZ00.\nLog
 s due: 2026-12-13\nNote: THE SUCCESSOR TO THE FT ROUNDUP. The sponsor's ow
 n FT Roundup page says 'The FT Roundup has been discontinued' and that 'A 
 new contest has been created to take its place. It is called the FT Challe
 nge.' The Roundup is therefore not encoded: it is gone\, and its latest li
 sted results are 2023. THE RULES PAGE DOES NOT NAME ITS ORGANISER. The sit
 e's tagline is 'Dedicated to Digital Mode Contesting' and the sponsor fiel
 d carries the contest's name rather than a person or club that the sponsor
  did not state. THE PAGE CONTRADICTS ITSELF ON THE YEAR: the date line is 
 still the 2025 one ('December 6-7\, 2025') while the header says 5-6 Decem
 ber 2026. Both are the first full weekend of December\, so the rule is una
 mbiguous\; the stale line is the sponsor's. The scored period is 24 of 30 
 hours\; the record carries the full 30-hour window\, which is what an oper
 ator needs to plan around. High power (over 100 W) is classified as a chec
 klog\, so this is a low-power and QRP contest.\nRules: https://www.rttycon
 testing.com/ft-challenge/rules/
URL:https://www.rttycontesting.com/ft-challenge/rules/
CATEGORIES:FT8/FT4
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
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