ARSI VU-DX Contest

India's international DX contest: 24 hours from 1200 UTC on four HF bands, open worldwide, with Indian states and union territories as the multiplier.

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)

1200Z → 1159Z the next day

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

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

The sponsor sets this date each year rather than by a rule, and has published through 2026. Years they have not announced are absent rather than guessed.

Operating

Modes: SSB / CW
Bands: 40m20m15m10m
Exchange: VU stations send RS(T) and their two-letter State or Union Territory code; non-VU stations send RS(T) and a serial number.
Power categories: Low 100 WHigh
Logs: no deadline or format recorded
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
'Geographic Focus : India. Participation : Worldwide.'

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: arsi.info/dxcontest/, the Amateur Radio Society of India's own page: 'Dates : 22 - 23 August 2026. Duration : 22-Aug 12:00 UTC to 23-Aug 11:59:59 UTC. Geographic Focus : India. Participation : Worldwide. Mode : SSB, CW, Mixed. Power : Low: < 100W, High: > 100W. Bands : 40, 20, 15, 10 M. Exchange: VU: RS(T) + 2-letter State/UT code; Non-VU: RS(T) + Serial Number.' Scoring gives VU stations 1 point per VU QSO and 3 per DX QSO, and non-VU stations 3 points per VU QSO.
Recorded caveats: Mixed is one of ARSI's entry categories rather than a third mode; the contest permits SSB and CW, which is what modes records. 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.

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