Bill Windle QSO Party unverified

The First Class Operators' Club's twice-yearly activity day honouring Bill Windle.

Rules at g4foc.orgThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

These dates have not been checked against FOC'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)

0000Z → 2359Z

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: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 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: Mixed
Bands: not read off the sponsor's page yet — so every band filter on the schedule hides this contest
Exchange: RST, name and FOC number (non-members: RST and name).
Logs: due 7 days after the end · focqp.g4foc.org
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
All amateurs worldwide.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: unverified — these dates have not yet been checked against FOC's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
What the source says: g4foc.org/bill-windle-qso-party: 'held twice a year'; dates listed 2011-2026, among them 2026: 28 March and 26 September. 0000-2359 UTC. Honour-system web form at focqp.g4foc.org, due 7 days after. All amateurs worldwide. Read 2026-10-15.
Recorded caveats: Bands: All bands except the WARC bands; the rules text 'from 015 to 040kHz on all bands' looks garbled, so bands are left unrecorded. FOC itself says this is 'not a contest' (an activity day) yet ranks QSO counts per continent, so it is listed as the sponsor's event rather than a scored contest. No recurrence rule is written; the page lists dates per year (earlier years back to 2011 are published but only 2022-2026 are encoded). No mode is stated (the call is 'CQ BW'), so Mixed is recorded as 'any'; bands are not cleanly stated.

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

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