Raleigh Amateur Radio Society · US
North Carolina QSO Party unverified
North Carolina's Sunday-afternoon party; digital counts but FT8/FT4 run in a separate showcase.
Rules at ncqsoparty.orgThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.
These dates have not been checked against Raleigh Amateur Radio Society'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)
- 1500Z → 0100Z the next day
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: 2026, 2027.
Next runnings
→ · 10h2027
in 134 days
Operating
- Modes
- SSBCWDigital
- Bands
- 80m40m20m15m10m6m2m
- Exchange
- North Carolina stations send serial number and county; others send serial number 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 Raleigh Amateur Radio Society's own page. Treat the sponsor's rules as authoritative.
- What the source says
Sponsor's own rules (http://ncqsoparty.org/rules/), read 2026-10-15: 'fourth Sunday after the first Saturday in February'; 1500Z 1 Mar to 0100Z 2 Mar 2026; 2027 banner gives 28 Feb. FT8/FT4 are excluded from the main contest (separate Weak Signal Showcase).
- Recorded caveats
- The stated rule ('fourth Sunday after the first Saturday in February') is not expressible in the engine, so two published dates are recorded manually. 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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