Kansas QSO Party unverified

Kansas's late-August party in two sessions, with RTTY and a separate FT4/8 category.

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

These dates have not been checked against Kansas QSO Party'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)

1400Z → 0200Z the next daysession 1
1400Z → 2000Z the next daysession 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.

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: SSBCWRTTYFT8/FT4
Bands: 80m40m20m15m10m6m
Exchange: Kansas stations send report and county; others send report 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 Kansas QSO Party's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
What the source says: Sponsor's own rules (https://ksqsoparty.org/rules/KSQPRules2026.pdf), read 2026-10-15: '29 Aug 2026 1400 - 0200 UTC 30 Aug 2026 1400 - 2000 UTC'; 'Contact stations on 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 and 6 meters'; separate FT4/8 entry category.
Recorded caveats: The rules name a coordinator (W0BH) and a club call (KS0KS, Santa Fe Trail ARC), not a formal sponsor. SPONSOR NOT NAMED on the rules page; the party's own name is used as the sponsor so the registry join works. Replace when a club is identified. 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.

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