Missouri QSO Party unverified

Missouri's spring party in two sessions; digital counts but FT8 and FT4 do not.

Rules at w0ma.orgThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

These dates have not been checked against Boeing Employees Amateur Radio Society-St. Louis'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 → 0400Z 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, 2027.

Next runnings

1400Z Sat 3 Apr → 0400Z Sun 4 Apr · 14h2027
in 168 days
1400Z Sun 4 Apr → 2000Z Sun 4 Apr · 6h2027
in 169 days

Operating

Modes: SSBCWDigital
Bands: 160m80m40m20m15m10m6m2m1.25m70cm
Exchange: Missouri stations send RST and county; others send RST 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 Boeing Employees Amateur Radio Society-St. Louis's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
What the source says: Sponsor's own rules (https://www.w0ma.org/mo_qso_party/results/thisyear/moqp-2026-rules-final.pdf), read 2026-10-15: 'For 2026 due to the Easter weekend the contest is on 11-12th of April'; 2027: Apr 3 and 4 (moqp.org); 'FT4/FT8 or similar modes that do not allow free text sending will not be allowed'.
Recorded caveats: The date moves around Easter, which is why this is manual. 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.

Take it with you

Add to Google Calendar Subscribe (iCal)This record as JSON

Add to Google Calendar puts the next running in as a single event. It is one event, not a subscription — come back for the one after it, or use the feed below.

Subscribe (iCal) carries this contest's runnings for the next twelve months as UTC instants and keeps them current. Apple Calendar, Outlook and Thunderbird take this address directly. Its identifiers are stable across deploys, so re-subscribing does not duplicate anything: https://contestclock.com/api/ics?id=missouri-qso-party

Google has no working one-click subscribe. Paste that address into Settings → Add calendar → From URL. Google then polls it on its own schedule, often 8–24 hours, and that cannot be forced — so use Add to Google Calendar above if you want the next running in your calendar now.