Africa All Mode International DX Contest

Africa's international DX contest: 24 hours from 1200 UTC over the fourth March weekend, CW and SSB on six HF bands, open to the whole world.

Rules at mysarl.org.zaThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

When it runs

Fourth full weekend of March

1200Z Saturday → 1200Z Sunday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

1200Z Sat 27 Mar → 1200Z Sun 28 Mar · 24h2027
in 177 days
Logs due 1200Z Mon 12 Apr
1200Z Sat 25 Mar → 1200Z Sun 26 Mar · 24h2028
in 541 days
Logs due 1200Z Mon 10 Apr
1200Z Sat 24 Mar → 1200Z Sun 25 Mar · 24h2029
in 905 days
Logs due 1200Z Mon 9 Apr
1200Z Sat 23 Mar → 1200Z Sun 24 Mar · 24h2030
in 1269 days
Logs due 1200Z Mon 8 Apr

Operating

Modes: CW / SSB
Bands: 160m80m40m20m15m10m
160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres. No contest QSOs are allowed on 12, 17, 30 or 60 metres.
Exchange: Signal report and a serial number.
Logs: Cabrillo · due 15 days after the end
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
'All participating stations worldwide may work any country during the contest period.'

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off SARL's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-19.
What the source says: 2026 SARL Contest Manual Version 1.1 (2025-12-15), mysarl.org.za, 'Africa All Mode International DX Contest': '1. Date: 12:00 UTC on Saturday 28 March to 12:00 UTC on Sunday 29 March 2026 (The 4th full weekend of March).' Aim: 'The objective of this all-mode contest is to stimulate contesting from Africa. All participating stations worldwide may work any country during the contest period.' Bands: '2. 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres ... No contest QSOs are allowed on 12, 17, 30 or 60 metres.' Modes: '3. CW and SSB.' Logs: '4. Entries must be submitted in Cabrillo format only and be received no later than 15 days after the contest - Monday 13 April 2026.' Checked against SARL's own published dates as well as its rules: SARL publishes SARL-Contests-2026-Calendar.ics on the same page, whose times carry TZID="South Africa Standard Time" (a fixed +0200, no DST -- its own X-CALSTART confirms 09:00 local as 07:00Z). That calendar is an independent second source for every date encoded here.
Recorded caveats: The log deadline is one of the few in this catalog stated BOTH ways by the sponsor -- '15 days after the contest' and 'Monday 13 April 2026' -- and the two agree exactly against a Sunday 12:00 UTC finish, so 15 is encoded with confidence rather than inferred from one year's date.

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

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