FT Roundup

Thirty hours of FT4 and FT8 on the first December weekend, with twenty-four of them scoring -- the digital answer to the RTTY Roundup.

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

When it runs

First full weekend of December

1800Z Saturday → 2359Z Sunday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

1800Z Sat 5 Dec → 2359Z Sun 6 Dec · 29h 59m2026
in 65 days
1800Z Sat 4 Dec → 2359Z Sun 5 Dec · 29h 59m2027
in 429 days
1800Z Sat 2 Dec → 2359Z Sun 3 Dec · 29h 59m2028
in 793 days
1800Z Sat 1 Dec → 2359Z Sun 2 Dec · 29h 59m2029
in 1157 days
1800Z Sat 7 Dec → 2359Z Sun 8 Dec · 29h 59m2030
in 1528 days

Operating

Modes: FT8/FT4 FT4, FT8
Bands: 80m40m20m15m10m
80 through 10 metres, no WARC bands.
Exchange: US and Canadian stations send a signal report and their state or province. Everyone else sends a signal report and a serial number from 001.
Logs: no deadline or format recorded
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
'Amateurs worldwide' contact each other; the exchange has a form for stations outside the US and Canada.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off RTTY Contesting's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-21.
What the source says: rttycontesting.com/ft-roundup/rules/: 'First full weekend of December.' 'Begins 1800 UTC Saturday, ends 2359 UTC Sunday.' Modes: 'Only FT4 and FT8 modes are permitted.' Bands: 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres with recommended sub-bands per mode. Exchange: 'Signal report and State (except KH6 and KL7)' for the US and 'Signal report and Province' for Canada; DX send 'Signal report and consecutive serial number, starting with 001 (including KH6 and KL7)'. Operating time: the entire 30-hour period may be worked but only the first 24 hours score.
Recorded caveats: THE SPONSOR FIELD IS AN ATTRIBUTION, NOT A QUOTATION. The rules page names no organising body at all -- it credits a wine sponsor for the awards and nothing else -- so 'RTTY Contesting' here is the site that publishes and runs it rather than a society that claims it. Recorded this way for the same reason the OK DX RTTY Contest is: an inferred organiser is better stated than implied. Worth one question to whoever answers the log address. The page still shows 2023's dates beside a rule stated in general terms, so the rule is what is encoded. Re-read it nearer December.

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

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