SARL YL QSO Party

An hour on 40 m for Women's Day, run twice: the first Saturday of March and South Africa's National Women's Day on 9 August.

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

When it runs

First Saturday of March, and August 9, every year

1400Z → 1500Z

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

1400Z Sat 6 Mar → 1500Z Sat 6 Mar · 1h2027
in 156 days
1400Z Mon 9 Aug → 1500Z Mon 9 Aug · 1h2027
in 312 days
1400Z Sat 4 Mar → 1500Z Sat 4 Mar · 1h2028
in 520 days
1400Z Wed 9 Aug → 1500Z Wed 9 Aug · 1h2028
in 678 days
1400Z Sat 3 Mar → 1500Z Sat 3 Mar · 1h2029
in 884 days
1400Z Thu 9 Aug → 1500Z Thu 9 Aug · 1h2029
in 1043 days

Operating

Modes: CW / SSB
Bands: 40m
Phone 7 063-7 100 and 7 130-7 200 kHz; CW 7 000-7 040 kHz.
Exchange: An RS(T) report and YL or OM.
Logs: no deadline or format recorded
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
Aimed at South African amateurs, but the scoring counts 'Contacts between YL Stations and any DX stations (ie outside RSA borders)'.

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, 'SARL YL QSO Party': '14:00 to 15:00 UTC (1600 to 1700 CAT) on the first Saturday of March - 7 March 2026 - International Women's Day is on 8 March each year' and '14:00 to 15:00 UTC (1600 to 1700 CAT) on National Women's Day - Sunday 9 August 2026'. Aim: 'a fun activity to celebrate Women's Day between radio amateurs in South Africa. And to get as many YL's on the air as possible.' Exchange: '3.1. The exchange is a RS(T) report and YL or OM.' 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 two legs anchor differently and that is the point: the March leg is the first Saturday nearest International Women's Day on 8 March, and the August leg is South Africa's National Women's Day, which is the FIXED DATE of 9 August. One record, two rule types, because both legs share the same hour. 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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