SARL HAMNET 40 m Simulated Emergency Contest

Two hours of 40 m phone on the first Sunday of March, run as a simulated emergency exercise across southern Africa.

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

When it runs

First Sunday of March

1200Z → 1400Z Sunday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

1200Z Sun 7 Mar → 1400Z Sun 7 Mar · 2h2027
in 157 days
1200Z Sun 5 Mar → 1400Z Sun 5 Mar · 2h2028
in 521 days
1200Z Sun 4 Mar → 1400Z Sun 4 Mar · 2h2029
in 885 days
1200Z Sun 3 Mar → 1400Z Sun 3 Mar · 2h2030
in 1249 days

Operating

Modes: SSB
Bands: 40m
A 40 m phone contest in 7 063-7 100 kHz and 7 130-7 200 kHz.
Exchange: not recorded yet
Logs: no deadline or format recorded
Who can enter: Entry limited to 9 listed entities. K stations may be worked but cannot submit an entry.
'open to all Radio Amateurs in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, ESwatini, Mozambique, Lesotho, Marion Island and South African Antarctica. Only contacts with these areas will count.'

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, https://mysarl.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2026-SARL-Contest-Manual-Version-1.1-2025-12-15.pdf, 'The SARL HAMNET 40 m Simulated Emergency Contest': '2. Date and Time 12:00 to 14:00 UTC on (the 1st Sunday) 1 March 2026'. Aim: 'This SSB Contest is open to all Radio Amateurs in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, ESwatini, Mozambique, Lesotho, Marion Island and South African Antarctica. Only contacts with these areas will count.' Frequencies: '3.1. It is a 40m phone contest in the band segments 7 063 to 7 100 kHz and 7 130 to 7 200 kHz.' Every date is checked against SARL's own Date Ordered List of Contests in the same manual, which states UTC directly, and against SARL-Contests-2026-Calendar.ics.
Recorded caveats: An emergency-preparedness exercise scored as a contest, with field-station and mobile categories. The entity list is SARL's own sentence rather than an inference, which is why this record's eligibility is verified while the club contests' is not. log_format and log_deadline_days are absent: this pass read each contest's Aim, Dates, Frequencies and Exchange sections and did not read its Log Sheets section, so neither is recorded rather than assumed from SARL's other contests.

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