Bruce Kelley 1929 QSO Party

An AWA event for operators using transmitters of 1929 design or earlier, run over two weekends in November.

Rules at antiquewireless.orgThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

When it runs

Dates set by the sponsor each year (no derivable rule)

2300Z → 0300Z 2 days later

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

2300Z Sat 14 Nov → 0300Z Mon 16 Nov · 28h2026
in 29 days
2300Z Sat 21 Nov → 0300Z Mon 23 Nov · 28h2026
in 36 days

Operating

Modes: CW
Bands: 160m80m40m20m
Hand keys; transmitters of 1929 design or earlier (self-excited).
Exchange: RST, name, state, two-digit design year, transmitter type and input power
Logs: no deadline or format recorded
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
Event pages restrict by equipment era, not by country; open participation was not stated in so many words.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off Antique Wireless Association's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-10-15.
What the source says: antiquewireless.org operating-events pages: 2026 edition on two weekends: Saturday 14 Nov 2300Z to Monday 16 Nov 0300Z and Saturday 21 Nov 2300Z to Monday 23 Nov 0300Z. Logs on the AWA PDF form in UTC. Read 2026-10-15.
Recorded caveats: DATES ARE STATED PER EDITION; THE SPONSOR PUBLISHES NO RECURRENCE RULE. Only the dates the sponsor has actually published are encoded (2026-11-14, 2026-11-21); a year it has not announced yields nothing rather than a guess. If a stated rule turns up, this record upgrades from manual. The AWA says each year's details are unique. Earlier years were not collected.

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

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