SARL HF CW Contest

The CW leg of SARL's August HF series: three hours on 20, 40 and 80 m, on the fourth Sunday.

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

When it runs

Fourth Sunday of August

1400Z → 1700Z Sunday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

1400Z Sun 22 Aug → 1700Z Sun 22 Aug · 3h2027
in 325 days
Logs due 1700Z Fri 27 Aug
1400Z Sun 27 Aug → 1700Z Sun 27 Aug · 3h2028
in 696 days
Logs due 1700Z Fri 1 Sep
1400Z Sun 26 Aug → 1700Z Sun 26 Aug · 3h2029
in 1060 days
Logs due 1700Z Fri 31 Aug
1400Z Sun 25 Aug → 1700Z Sun 25 Aug · 3h2030
in 1424 days
Logs due 1700Z Fri 30 Aug

Operating

Modes: CW
Bands: 80m40m20m
20, 40 and 80 m. SSB 14 125-14 350, 7 063-7 100 and 7 130-7 200, 3 603-3 650 and 3 700-3 800 kHz; CW 14 020-14 030, 7 000-7 040, 3 510-3 560 kHz. The segments 7 100-7 130 and 3 651-3 699 kHz are contest free.
Exchange: RS, RSQ or RST report and a consecutive serial number starting at 001.
Logs: ADIF, Cabrillo or MS Excel · due 5 days after the end
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
The aim is 'to contact as many amateurs in Southern Africa as possible', but the scoring table's Area 9 is 'Stations in the rest of the world', so entry is not restricted to South Africa. This corrects an earlier assumption in this catalog that SARL contests were ZS-only, which was flagged 'Confirm' and turned out to be wrong.

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: '2.3. HF CW Contest on (4th Sunday) 23 August 2026 14:00 to 17:00 UTC'. CW frequencies: '3.2. CW: 14 020 to 14 030 kHz 7 000 to 7 040 kHz 3 510 to 3 560 kHz.' Exchange as for Phone. 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: FOURTH Sunday, not last: in a five-Sunday August the two differ, and SARL writes '(4th Sunday)'. log_deadline_days is 5, which is the right DAY and not the right hour: SARL states 'by 21:59 UTC on Friday', and the contest ends at 17:00 UTC on the Sunday five days before, so the engine's derived log_due lands at 17:00 rather than 21:59. The day is exact in every year because both ends are tied to the same Sunday. The five hours are recorded here rather than papered over.

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