Hemus VHF Contest 144 MHz unverified

Bulgaria's 2m contest on the Sunday of the first August weekend; the sponsor's start time is stated two ways.

Rules at vhfcontest.bfra.bgThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

These dates have not been checked against BFRA'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 full weekend of August

0900Z → 1359Z Sunday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

0900Z Sun 8 Aug → 1359Z Sun 8 Aug · 4h 59m2027
in 294 days
Logs due 1359Z Mon 16 Aug
0900Z Sun 6 Aug → 1359Z Sun 6 Aug · 4h 59m2028
in 658 days
Logs due 1359Z Mon 14 Aug
0900Z Sun 5 Aug → 1359Z Sun 5 Aug · 4h 59m2029
in 1022 days
Logs due 1359Z Mon 13 Aug
0900Z Sun 4 Aug → 1359Z Sun 4 Aug · 4h 59m2030
in 1386 days
Logs due 1359Z Mon 12 Aug

Operating

Modes: CWSSBFM
Bands: 2m
144 MHz only.
Exchange: RS(T) + serial number from 001 + 6-character locator
Logs: EDI · due 8 days after the end
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
Sponsor: 'All licensed radio amateurs'.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: unverified — these dates have not yet been checked against BFRA's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
What the source says: vhfcontest.bfra.bg 'Hemus VHF Contest 2026' PDF (https://vhfcontest.bfra.bg/contest-documents/24/download), run by Radio Club Troyan and the Bulgarian Federation of Radioamateurs: Sunday 2 August 2026, 09:00 to 13:59 GMT per the PDF; CW, SSB, FM on 144 MHz; log by EDI to vhfcontest.bfra.bg/robot within 8 days. Categories: SO, SO LZ, MO, MO LZ. Read 2026-10-15.
Recorded caveats: THE SPONSOR CONTRADICTS ITSELF ON THE START. The rules PDF's date line, itself garbled ('Every Sunday of the 1st full weekend of August - from 09:00 GMT to 13:59 GMT on August 2, 2026'), gives 09:00-13:59 UTC; the contest page for the same edition says 06:00-13:59 UTC, 7 hours. The PDF is encoded; ask the organisers. The recurrence is this catalog's reading of that garbled sentence as the Sunday of the first full weekend of August.

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

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