British Columbia QSO Party unverified
British Columbia's February party in two sessions.
Rules at orcadxcc.orgThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.
These dates have not been checked against Orca DX and Contest Club'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)
- 1600Z → 0359Z the next daysession 1
- 1600Z → 2359Z the next daysession 2
Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.
2 sessions run off the one anchor day; each is a separate running with its own log.
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
- 160m80m40m20m15m10m
- Exchange
- BC stations send serial number and district; others send serial number 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 Orca DX and Contest Club's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
- What the source says
Sponsor's own rules (https://www.orcadxcc.org/bcqp_rules.html), read 2026-10-15: Feb 7-8, 2026; Saturday 1600Z to Sunday 0359Z and Sunday 1600Z-2359Z; phone and CW.
- Recorded caveats
- The rules page carries stale typos. No WARC bands. 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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