All Cities All Counties Contest (ACAG)

When it runs

Second Monday of October

• 2100 Saturday → 2100 Sunday

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

Next runnings

1. 1200Z Sat 10 Oct → 1200Z Sun 11 Oct · 24h2026

   in 9 days

2. 1200Z Sat 9 Oct → 1200Z Sun 10 Oct · 24h2027

   in 373 days

3. 1200Z Sat 7 Oct → 1200Z Sun 8 Oct · 24h2028

   in 737 days

4. 1200Z Sat 6 Oct → 1200Z Sun 7 Oct · 24h2029

   in 1101 days

5. 1200Z Sat 12 Oct → 1200Z Sun 13 Oct · 24h2030

   in 1472 days

Operating

Modes

CW / SSB / FM AM

Bands

160m80m40m20m15m10m6m2m70cm

1.9 through 430 MHz. The phone all-band category excludes 14 MHz; CW may use it.

Exchange

RST, the city, county or ward number for where you are operating, and one letter for power. Tokyo's Toshima ward at high power sends 59 100116 H.

Logs

no deadline or format recorded

Who can enter

Entry limited to JA. K stations may be worked but cannot submit an entry.

'2 参加資格 日本国内のアマチュア局およびSWL（アマチュア局の電波を受信する個人をいう）' -- amateur stations within Japan, and SWLs. All four of JARL's domestic contests carry the same clause. A JA station can be WORKED from anywhere, which is why the record exists; entry is the part that is restricted.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor

Yes. The rule on this page was read off JARL's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-19.

What the source says

jarl.org, 第47回 全市全郡コンテスト規約: '1 開催日時 毎年10月第2月曜日の前々日の21時00分から前日の21時00分（JST）まで。' -- from 21:00 two days before the SECOND MONDAY of October until 21:00 the day before it. The 2026 running is stated separately as '2026年10月10日（土）21時00分（JST）から10月11日（日）21時00分（JST）まで', which the rule reproduces: the second Monday of October 2026 is the 12th.

Recorded caveats

THE ONLY RULE IN THE CATALOG ANCHORED ON A PUBLIC HOLIDAY AND COUNTED BACKWARDS. Japan's Sports Day is the second Monday of October, and JARL hangs the contest on the weekend before it -- 前々日 and 前日, two days before and one day before. It is encoded exactly that way, with negative day offsets from a Monday anchor, rather than as 'the second full weekend of October', which would be a different rule that happens to agree in some years. Encoded as wall_clock in Asia/Tokyo because that is how JARL states it -- 21時00分（JST） -- rather than converted to a fixed UTC time by hand. Japan has not observed daylight saving since 1952, so the two are identical in practice and will stay so; the record says what the sponsor said and lets the engine do the arithmetic. log_deadline_days is absent. JARL prints a dated deadline above the rules for the edition in hand -- ALL JA 2026 is '提出締切日 2026年5月6日（水）必着' -- and the numbered 規約 clauses that follow state the dates, eligibility, bands, categories and exchange but no submission span. All four of JARL's 2026 deadlines happen to fall exactly ten days after their contest ends, which is suggestive and is not a rule JARL wrote. The same reasoning already keeps a deadline off JARL's All Asian records.

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