ARS Spartan Sprint

Monthly two-hour QRP CW sprint on the first Monday evening. Scoring rewards a low station weight as well as QSOs, which is what makes it distinctive.

Rules at ars-qrp.comThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

When it runs

First Monday of every month

2000 → 2200 Monday

Times are the sponsor's own clock in America/New_York, so the UTC instant moves an hour across a daylight-saving boundary. The runnings below are the resolved instants.

Next runnings

0000Z Tue 6 Oct → 0200Z Tue 6 Oct · 2h2026
in 4 days
0100Z Tue 3 Nov → 0300Z Tue 3 Nov · 2h2026
in 32 days
0100Z Tue 8 Dec → 0300Z Tue 8 Dec · 2h2026
in 67 days
0100Z Tue 5 Jan → 0300Z Tue 5 Jan · 2h2027
in 95 days
0100Z Tue 2 Feb → 0300Z Tue 2 Feb · 2h2027
in 123 days
0100Z Tue 2 Mar → 0300Z Tue 2 Mar · 2h2027
in 151 days

Operating

Modes: CW
Bands: 80m40m20m15m10m
Exchange: RST + state/province + power output
Power categories: QRP 5 W
Logs: no deadline or format recorded
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
ars-qrp.com: 'It is open to all QRP CW operators - there is no membership requirement.'

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off Adventure Radio Society's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-11.
What the source says: ars-qrp.com Spartan Sprint page: 'Held on the first Monday of every month', 'EASTERN 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Local. CENTRAL 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Local MOUNTAIN 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Local PACIFIC 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Local', '(Does not shift for DST - This event is always at these Local Times)', 'a simple, casual 2 Hour QRP CW Event', 'open to all QRP CW operators - there is no membership requirement'.
Recorded caveats: CORRECTION (anchor): previously encoded as the first TUESDAY of the month. The sponsor's rule is the first MONDAY US local, which lands on Tuesday UTC -- and those are different dates whenever the 1st falls on a Tuesday (Sep and Dec 2026). SPONSOR-ANCHORED LOCAL TIME: ARS publishes no UTC time and states the event 'is always at these Local Times', so the UTC instant is what moves -- 0100Z Tuesday under EST, 0000Z Tuesday under EDT. Resolved through America/New_York rather than hardcoded, so DST is handled. ARS lists Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific times that are the same instant in every zone that observes DST; Arizona, which does not, is the one place the sponsor's own table is inconsistent.

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

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