Maryland-DC QSO Party unverified
Maryland and DC's August party: 14 hours of phone and CW.
Rules at w3vpr.orgThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.
These dates have not been checked against Anne Arundel Radio 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
Second Saturday of August
- 1400Z Saturday → 0400Z Sunday
Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.
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Operating
- Modes
- SSBCW
- Bands
- 160m80m40m20m15m10m
- Exchange
- Maryland-DC stations send call and county or city; others send 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 Anne Arundel Radio Club's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
- What the source says
Sponsor's own rules (https://www.w3vpr.org/sites/default/files/mdcqsoparty/Documents/Maryland-DC_QSO_Party_Rules_2020-03-04.pdf), read 2026-10-15: 'a single 14-hour operating period beginning on the second Saturday in August at 1400 UTC and ending at 0400 Sunday UTC'; only phone and CW.
- Recorded caveats
- MEDIUM CONFIDENCE: the sponsor's contest pages returned 404/500 on 2026-10-15; the only readable rules are a PDF revised 06 AUG 2024. No 2026 date was readable. Bands are inferred from the exclusions (no WARC, 60m or VHF/UHF).
Something wrong? How to report it — a link to the sponsor's own page is all it takes.
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