LZ DX Contest

Bulgaria's DX contest, deliberately placed the weekend before CQ WW CW. LZ stations are worth ten points and hand out districts.

Rules at lzdx.bfra.bgThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

When it runs

Second-to-last full weekend of November

1200Z Saturday → 1159Z Sunday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

1200Z Sat 21 Nov → 1159Z Sun 22 Nov · 23h 59m2026
in 51 days
1200Z Sat 20 Nov → 1159Z Sun 21 Nov · 23h 59m2027
in 415 days
1200Z Sat 18 Nov → 1159Z Sun 19 Nov · 23h 59m2028
in 779 days
1200Z Sat 17 Nov → 1159Z Sun 18 Nov · 23h 59m2029
in 1143 days
1200Z Sat 16 Nov → 1159Z Sun 17 Nov · 23h 59m2030
in 1507 days

Operating

Modes: CW / SSB
Bands: 80m40m20m15m10m
Exchange: Stations outside Bulgaria send RS(T) and their ITU zone; LZ stations send RS(T) and a two-letter district abbreviation.
Power categories: High Power 1500 WLow Power 100 WQRP 10 W
Logs: Cabrillo
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
The rules give an exchange for stations inside and outside Bulgaria and score QSOs by continent, with no entry restriction.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off BFRA's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-19.
What the source says: lzdx.bfra.bg/rulesen.html, the Bulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs' own rules. 'The weekend before the last full weekend of November (the weekend before CQWW CW contest weekend) from 12:00 UTC on Saturday till 11:59 UTC on Sunday (22-23 November 2025). Logs due 0000Z, Dec 7 2025'. Bands: '80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters ... on both CW and SSB modes.' Exchange: non-LZ stations send RS(T) and ITU zone, LZ stations RS(T) and their two-letter district. Points: 10 for an LZ station, 3 to another continent, 1 within one's own. Categories: HP up to 1500 W, LP up to 100 W, QRP up to 10 W.
Recorded caveats: 'The weekend before the last full weekend of November' is a rule, not an annual announcement -- BFRA anchors it to CQ WW CW, which sits on the last one -- so it is encoded as n=-2 and this is the record that made the engine count backwards past 'last'. November 2025's full weekends are the 1st/2nd, 8th/9th, 15th/16th, 22nd/23rd and 29th/30th, so n=-2 gives 22-23 November, the date BFRA prints. For 2026 it gives 21-22 November. The log deadline is a stated instant (0000Z on 7 December 2025) and not the contest end plus a whole number of days, so it is recorded here rather than as log_deadline_days. REGISTRY CORRECTION: BFRA is at bfra.bg; the lzdx.bfra.org host that the sponsor's own news page cites does not resolve.

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