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CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
X-WR-CALNAME:Amateur Radio Contests (SARL VHF/UHF FM Mode Contest)
X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H
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X-WR-CALDESC:Rolling window: the last 30 days and the next 365 days. Filter
 ed: SARL VHF/UHF FM Mode Contest. Dates are computed from each sponsor's o
 wn published rules. Times are UTC instants\; events marked TENTATIVE have 
 not been verified against the sponsor's page yet.
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UID:sarl-vhf-uhf-fm-20261031T1000@contestcal
DTSTAMP:20261001T173833Z
DTSTART:20261031T100000Z
DTEND:20261031T130000Z
SUMMARY:SARL VHF/UHF FM Mode Contest
DESCRIPTION:Sponsor: SARL\nModes: FM\nBands: 6m\, 2m\, 70cm\nBand note: FM 
 mode on the 6m\, 2m and 70cm bands.\nDuration: 3h\nExchange: A signal repo
 rt and your full six-character Maidenhead locator. When working a mobile s
 tation the contesting station must obtain its grid position.\nEligibility:
  Entry limited to ZS\, V5\, A2\, Z2\, C9\, 7P\, 3DA. K stations may be wor
 ked but cannot submit an entry.\nNote: THE RECORD THAT PUT FM IN THE MODE 
 VOCABULARY. This contest is FM ONLY\, and until 2026-08-19 this catalog ha
 d no FM token -- it used SSB as a general phone token\, which was servicea
 ble while every phone contest also allowed SSB. Recording an FM-only conte
 st as SSB would have stated something SARL does not permit\, which is prec
 isely the overstatement the mode rules exist to prevent\, so FM was added 
 to CATALOG_MODES in both engines and to the filter families instead. Ten r
 ecords that had been carrying FM in submodes moved it into modes in the sa
 me commit.\n\nTwo legs on one record: both run 10:00-13:00 UTC and differ 
 only in their anchor\, and the anchors are different SHAPES -- the second 
 Saturday of June and the LAST Saturday of October -- which a composite hol
 ds without trouble.\n\nSARL explains the timing: 'The dates are three week
 s after the RAE Radio Amateur Examination'\, which is why the contest is a
 imed at newly licensed amateurs. That is context rather than a rule\; the 
 ordinals are what is encoded.\n\nNo log deadline was read in this pass\, s
 o none is recorded.\nRules: https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/
 12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manual-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf
URL:https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manu
 al-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf
CATEGORIES:FM
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
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UID:sarl-vhf-uhf-fm-20270612T1000@contestcal
DTSTAMP:20261001T173833Z
DTSTART:20270612T100000Z
DTEND:20270612T130000Z
SUMMARY:SARL VHF/UHF FM Mode Contest
DESCRIPTION:Sponsor: SARL\nModes: FM\nBands: 6m\, 2m\, 70cm\nBand note: FM 
 mode on the 6m\, 2m and 70cm bands.\nDuration: 3h\nExchange: A signal repo
 rt and your full six-character Maidenhead locator. When working a mobile s
 tation the contesting station must obtain its grid position.\nEligibility:
  Entry limited to ZS\, V5\, A2\, Z2\, C9\, 7P\, 3DA. K stations may be wor
 ked but cannot submit an entry.\nNote: THE RECORD THAT PUT FM IN THE MODE 
 VOCABULARY. This contest is FM ONLY\, and until 2026-08-19 this catalog ha
 d no FM token -- it used SSB as a general phone token\, which was servicea
 ble while every phone contest also allowed SSB. Recording an FM-only conte
 st as SSB would have stated something SARL does not permit\, which is prec
 isely the overstatement the mode rules exist to prevent\, so FM was added 
 to CATALOG_MODES in both engines and to the filter families instead. Ten r
 ecords that had been carrying FM in submodes moved it into modes in the sa
 me commit.\n\nTwo legs on one record: both run 10:00-13:00 UTC and differ 
 only in their anchor\, and the anchors are different SHAPES -- the second 
 Saturday of June and the LAST Saturday of October -- which a composite hol
 ds without trouble.\n\nSARL explains the timing: 'The dates are three week
 s after the RAE Radio Amateur Examination'\, which is why the contest is a
 imed at newly licensed amateurs. That is context rather than a rule\; the 
 ordinals are what is encoded.\n\nNo log deadline was read in this pass\, s
 o none is recorded.\nRules: https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/
 12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manual-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf
URL:https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manu
 al-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf
CATEGORIES:FM
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:TRANSPARENT
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