SARL QRP Contest (Summer leg)

The summer leg of SARL's QRP series: two hours at five watts on 40, 20 and 10 m, scored with a power-and-distance bonus.

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

When it runs

Third Saturday of January

0700Z → 0900Z Saturday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

0700Z Sat 16 Jan → 0900Z Sat 16 Jan · 2h2027
in 106 days
0700Z Sat 15 Jan → 0900Z Sat 15 Jan · 2h2028
in 470 days
0700Z Sat 20 Jan → 0900Z Sat 20 Jan · 2h2029
in 841 days
0700Z Sat 19 Jan → 0900Z Sat 19 Jan · 2h2030
in 1205 days

Operating

Modes: SSB / CW
Bands: 40m20m10m
40m, 20m and 10m, any of them at any time during the contest. QRP calling frequencies 7.090, 14.285 and 28.360 MHz are suggested.
Exchange: Realistic RS(T), 6-character grid square and transmit power in watts (for example 57, KG33uk, 10).
Power categories: QRP 5 W
Logs: no deadline or format recorded
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
The manual states no entry restriction for this contest.

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 QRP Contests': '1. Dates and times' gives four legs -- '1.1. Summer Leg: 3rd Saturday of January - 17 January 2026 - from 07:00 to 09:00 UTC 1.2. Autumn Leg: 1st Saturday of April - 4 April 2026 - from 13:30 to 15:30 UTC 1.3. Winter Leg: 3rd Saturday of July - 18 July 2026 - from 07:00 to 09:00 UTC 1.4. Spring Leg: 1st Saturday of November - 7 November 2026 - from 13:30 to 15:30 UTC'. Modes: '2.1. Any or all of two Modes: Phone SSB and/or CW'. Frequency: '3.1. 40m, 20m and 10m bands can be used at any time during the contest.' Exchange: '4.1. Realistic RS(T), 6-char Grid square and transmit power in watts (eg: 57, KG33uk, 10)'. 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: The summer leg is the January one -- the seasons are southern hemisphere, so January is summer. One of SARL's four named QRP legs. They are four records rather than one because SARL names four legs by season and they do not share a clock: the Summer and Winter legs run 07:00-09:00 UTC and the Autumn and Spring legs 13:30-15:30, so no single start/end pair covers them. Grouping the two pairs by their times would have been this catalog inventing a structure SARL does not use. 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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