ARRL Kids Day (January) unverified

Six hours on a January Saturday for getting young operators on the air; you exchange a name, an age and a favourite colour.

Rules at arrl.orgThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

These dates have not been checked against ARRL's own published rules yet. They are computed from the rule below, which is what the catalog holds — but the sponsor's page wins.

When it runs

First Saturday of January

1800Z → 2359Z Saturday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

1800Z Sat 2 Jan → 2359Z Sat 2 Jan · 5h 59m2027
in 93 days
1800Z Sat 1 Jan → 2359Z Sat 1 Jan · 5h 59m2028
in 457 days
1800Z Sat 6 Jan → 2359Z Sat 6 Jan · 5h 59m2029
in 828 days
1800Z Sat 5 Jan → 2359Z Sat 5 Jan · 5h 59m2030
in 1192 days

Operating

Modes: SSB
Bands: 80m40m20m17m15m12m10m
Suggested frequencies on each band, for example 28.350-28.400 MHz on 10 m. Local repeaters may also be used with the owner's permission.
Exchange: Name, age, location and favourite colour.
Logs: no deadline or format recorded
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
An operating event rather than a contest; anyone may take part.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: unverified — these dates have not yet been checked against ARRL's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
What the source says: arrl.org/kids-day, ARRL's own page: 'Generally the first Saturday in January, and the third Saturday in June.' 'Kids Day always runs from 1800 UTC through 2359 UTC.' Exchange: 'Name, age, location and favorite color.' Call: 'CQ Kids Day'. Bands listed with suggested frequencies, and local repeaters permitted with permission.
Recorded caveats: UNVERIFIED ON PURPOSE, AND THE HEDGE IS ARRL'S OWN. Their page says 'GENERALLY the first Saturday in January' -- and ARRL's Generic Contest Calendar, which states every other ARRL recurrence flatly, lists only the June running and gives it as 'Third Saturday in June' with no hedge at all. So the January date is stated once, softly, in one place. The record carries the hedge as a hedge rather than promoting it to a rule. The catalog held the June running from the first seeding pass and never had this one, from a sponsor with 21 encoded records -- which is the gap audit's second finding in miniature: the bias was not only across sponsors but WITHIN them.

Something wrong? How to report it — a link to the sponsor's own page is all it takes.

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