DARC · DE
DARC HELL-Kurzcontest unverified
One hour of Feld-Hell, four times a year on the third Tuesday of February, May, August and November.
Rules at darc.deThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.
These dates have not been checked against DARC'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
Third Tuesday of February, May, August and November
- 1800Z → 1859Z Tuesday
Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.
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Operating
- Modes
- Digital Hell
- Bands
- not read off the sponsor's page yet — so every band filter on the schedule hides this contest
- Exchange
- not recorded yet
- Logs
- no deadline or format recorded
- Who can enter
- Anyone, anywhere.
No participation clause has been read; no rules page is linked.
Where this comes from
- Checked against the sponsor
- unverified — these dates have not yet been checked against DARC's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
- What the source says
Dates and times from DARC's own 'Termine DARC KW Conteste 2026' table at darc.de/der-club/referate/conteste/darc-kw-conteste/kw-conteste/, which lists four runnings: 17.02.2026, 19.05.2026, 18.08.2026 and 17.11.2026, each 1800-1859 UTC. Unlike DARC's other short contests this one has NO Ausschreibung linked from that table, so the bands, the exchange and the log deadline are unread. Checked 2026-08-23.
- Recorded caveats
- VERIFIED FALSE, AND THE RECURRENCE IS STILL DERIVED FROM DARC'S OWN FOUR DATES. All four are the THIRD TUESDAY of the second month of each quarter -- 17 Feb, 19 May, 18 Aug, 17 Nov 2026 -- which is a clean pattern across four points and sits alongside the RTTY-Kurzcontest (2nd Tuesday, months 1/4/7/10) and the FT4 Contest (2nd Tuesday, months 2/5/8/11) that DARC already runs. What is missing is everything the rules page would give: BANDS ARE UNRECORDED, so every band filter excludes this record, and the exchange and deadline are absent. The mode is taken from the contest's own name. That is why it is unverified: the dates are DARC's, the rule is an inference from them, and the rest is a gap. WHERE THE BANDS WOULD HAVE BEEN: Not read: this series has no Ausschreibung linked from DARC's table. That sentence sits here rather than in bands_note, because bands_note is for a sponsor's own wording ABOUT a band list and must never stand in for one -- a test enforces it, and it caught this.
Something wrong? How to report it — a link to the sponsor's own page is all it takes.
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