ARSI 40M CQ VU CW Contest

A 24-hour CW contest on 40 m for Indian stations, at 100 watts or less, run from 1930 IST.

Rules at arsi.infoThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

When it runs

Dates set by the sponsor each year (no derivable rule)

1930 → 1929 the next day

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

The sponsor announces these dates a year at a time and there is no rule to derive, so this calendar holds only the years they have published: 2026.

Next runnings

1400Z Sat 5 Dec → 1359Z Sun 6 Dec · 23h 59m2026
in 65 days
Logs due 1359Z Sun 13 Dec

Operating

Modes: CW
Bands: 40m
Exchange: A serial number starting at 001, with the signal report.
Power categories: Low power 100 W
Logs: Cabrillo · due 7 days after the end
Who can enter: Entry limited to VU. K stations may be worked but cannot submit an entry.
ARSI'S OWN PAGE CONTRADICTS ITSELF. It says 'Any licensed ham can participate in the contest' and then, four lines later, 'Though this contest is only for VU, any DX contacts in the log will get 2 QSO multiplier points'. Read together the likely meaning is that entry is for VU stations while DX stations may be worked and count for multipliers -- which is what is encoded -- but the two sentences cannot both be taken at face value, so eligibility.verified is false. Ask ARSI.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off ARSI's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-19.
What the source says: https://arsi.info/40m-cqvu-contest/: 'Objective: To promote 40M CW activity. Date: 5 - 6 Dec 2026' Duration is given only in Indian Standard Time -- '7:30 PM IST to 7:29:59 PM IST' the following day. 'This is a low power (<=100W) CW only contest.' 'Report exchange shall be serial number starting with 001.' 'Logs should be sent to contest manager within a week after the contest in Cabrillo format', and 'Log submission will be due in 7 days time from the date of contest'. 'Hams using home-brewed equipment will be considered as separate category and will be specially awarded.'
Recorded caveats: STATED IN IST ONLY, unlike ARSI's other contests, which give UTC. So this record carries Asia/Kolkata wall clock rather than a UTC time converted by hand -- India is a fixed +05:30 with no daylight saving, so 19:30 IST is 14:00 UTC and always will be, but the record says what the page said. The log deadline is one of the few here stated as a SPAN rather than a date: 'within a week', 'due in 7 days time from the date of contest'. ARSI PUBLISHES DATES, NOT A RECURRENCE. Every one of its contest pages opens with the year's dates and states no rule anywhere -- no 'annually on', no ordinal weekend. So all five records are manual and hold exactly the 2026 editions ARSI published. Fitting an ordinal to one date would be inventing a rule ARSI has not written, and Asia is thin enough that the temptation is worth naming.

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

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