SARL Youth QSO Party

An hour on 40 m for young operators, on National Youth Day in June and the third Saturday of August; the exchange is your age.

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

When it runs

June 16, every year, and Third Saturday of August

1200Z → 1300Z

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

1200Z Wed 16 Jun → 1300Z Wed 16 Jun · 1h2027
in 258 days
1200Z Sat 21 Aug → 1300Z Sat 21 Aug · 1h2027
in 324 days
1200Z Fri 16 Jun → 1300Z Fri 16 Jun · 1h2028
in 624 days
1200Z Sat 19 Aug → 1300Z Sat 19 Aug · 1h2028
in 688 days
1200Z Sat 16 Jun → 1300Z Sat 16 Jun · 1h2029
in 989 days
1200Z Sat 18 Aug → 1300Z Sat 18 Aug · 1h2029
in 1052 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 the operator's age.
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, 'SARL Youth QSO Party': '12:00 to 13:00 UTC (1400 to 1500 CAT) on 16 June the National Youth Day - Tuesday 16 June 2026' and '12:00 to 13:00 UTC (1400 to 1500 CAT) on the 3rd Saturday of August - Saturday 15 August 2026 - International Youth Day is on 12 August each year.' Exchange: '3.1. The exchange is a RS(T) report and the operator's age.' 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: Like the YL party, two legs with two different rule shapes on one clock: 16 June is South Africa's National Youth Day and is fixed, while the August leg is the third Saturday. 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.

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

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