California QSO Party unverified

California's long October party: 30 hours of CW and phone, 58 counties.

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

These dates have not been checked against Northern California 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 → 2200Z 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: 160m80m40m20m15m10m
Exchange: California stations send serial number and county; 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 Northern California Contest Club's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
What the source says: Sponsor's own rules (https://cqp.org/pdf/CQP_2026_Rules.pdf), read 2026-10-15: 1600Z 3 Oct to 2200Z 4 Oct 2026; CW and phone, no digital.
Recorded caveats: HF 160-10 is recorded; VHF was not confirmed from the rules text. 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.

Take it with you

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