CQ World Wide VHF Contest unverified

Six- and two-metre grid-square contest. One weekend for SSB, CW and FM, a second for digital modes only; multiplier is grids worked per band.

Rules at cqww-vhf.comThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

These dates have not been checked against CQ Magazine'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

First full weekend of July

1400Z Saturday → 1400Z Sundaysession 1
1400Z Saturday → 1400Z Sundaysession 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.

Next runnings

1400Z Sat 3 Jul → 1400Z Sun 4 Jul · 24h2027
in 259 days
Logs due 1400Z Fri 9 Jul
1400Z Sat 17 Jul → 1400Z Sun 18 Jul · 24h2027
in 273 days
Logs due 1400Z Fri 23 Jul
1400Z Sat 1 Jul → 1400Z Sun 2 Jul · 24h2028
in 623 days
Logs due 1400Z Fri 7 Jul
1400Z Sat 15 Jul → 1400Z Sun 16 Jul · 24h2028
in 637 days
Logs due 1400Z Fri 21 Jul
1400Z Sat 7 Jul → 1400Z Sun 8 Jul · 24h2029
in 994 days
Logs due 1400Z Fri 13 Jul
1400Z Sat 21 Jul → 1400Z Sun 22 Jul · 24h2029
in 1008 days
Logs due 1400Z Fri 27 Jul

Operating

Modes: CWSSBFMDigitalFT4, FT8, MSK144, Q65
Bands: 6m2m
50 and 144 MHz only. Analog modes (SSB/CW/FM) on the first weekend, digital modes only on the second.
Exchange: Callsign and 4-character Maidenhead grid locator; no signal report
Power categories: High Power 1500 WLow Power 100 WQRP 10 W
Logs: Cabrillo · due 5 days after the end · cqww-vhf.com
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
cqww-vhf.com rules I: 'for amateurs around the world to contact as many amateurs as possible'.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: unverified — these dates have not yet been checked against CQ Magazine's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
What the source says: cqww-vhf.com/rules (2026): 'SSB/CW/FM: July 4-5 Digital: July 18-19. Starts 14:00:00 UTC Saturday Ends 14:00:00 UTC Sunday'; 'Only analog modes (SSB/CW/FM) during the SSB/CW weekend. Only digital modes (FT4, FT8, MSK144, Q65, etc) during the Digital weekend.' The 2025 rules PDF on the same site has July 5-6 and July 19-20 at 12:00 UTC. Both split-weekend years are the first Saturday of July and the Saturday two weeks later; the sponsor states no recurrence rule, and the start time moved from 12:00 to 14:00 UTC between the two. The rules PDFs for 2016-2024 show a single weekend at 18:00-21:00 UTC in mid-July (third Saturday), so the pattern is two years old.
Recorded caveats: UNVERIFIED RULE: the split-weekend pattern (first full July weekend for SSB/CW/FM, digital two weeks later) rests on two years of sponsor rules (2025, 2026) and the start time changed between them (12:00 UTC in 2025, 14:00 UTC in 2026). Encoded at the 2026 clock time. Re-read the 2027 rules when published.

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

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