Alabama QSO Party unverified
Alabama's July party: one 12-hour CW and phone session, county multipliers.
Rules at alabamacontestgroup.orgThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.
These dates have not been checked against Alabama Contest Group's own published rules yet. They are computed from the rule below, which is what the catalog holds — but the sponsor's page wins.
When it runs
Dates set by the sponsor each year (no derivable rule)
- 1500Z → 0300Z the next day
Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.
The sponsor announces these dates a year at a time and there is no rule to derive, so this calendar holds only the years they have published: 2026.
Next runnings
The sponsor sets this date each year rather than by a rule, and has published through 2026. Years they have not announced are absent rather than guessed.
Operating
- Modes
- SSBCW
- Bands
- not read off the sponsor's page yet — so every band filter on the schedule hides this contest
- Exchange
- Alabama stations send RS(T) and county; others send RS(T) and state, province or DX.
- Logs
- no deadline or format recorded
- Who can enter
- Anyone, anywhere.
Where this comes from
- Checked against the sponsor
- unverified — these dates have not yet been checked against Alabama Contest Group's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
- What the source says
Sponsor's own rules (https://alabamacontestgroup.org/aqp/rules/), read 2026-10-15: 1500Z 25 Jul to 0300Z 26 Jul 2026; the landing page is stale (2024) and says rules are the same as 2025. CW/Phone only; no digital is mentioned.
- Recorded caveats
- Bands are not listed on the page in a form usable here (no WARC, no 160 stated), so bands are left empty (unrecorded). Digital modes are not mentioned. MANUAL AND UNVERIFIED BECAUSE A PUBLISHED DATE IS NOT A RULE. The sponsor states the dates for the year(s) listed and no recurrence wording, so none is invented here; the next announcement settles it.
Something wrong? How to report it — a link to the sponsor's own page is all it takes.
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