Belgian Mills Award (BMA) Contest

A four-hour Belgian activity contest for windmill, watermill and horse-mill sites, worked on 80 m SSB and 2 m SSB/FM with mill references as multipliers.

Rules at uba.beThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

When it runs

Dates set by the sponsor each year (no derivable rule)

0600Z → 1000Z

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: 2025, 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: SSB / FM
Bands: 80m2m
80m SSB 3600-3650 and 3700-3775 kHz; 2m SSB and FM
Exchange: RST + a QSO serial number starting with 001 + the Belgian province (AN, BW, HT, LB, LG, NM, LU, OV, VB, WV or BR for Brussels) + the mill reference if operating from one.
Logs: Cabrillo
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
'Alle radioamateurs uit binnen- en buitenland die beschikken over de nodige licentie ... kunnen deelnemen' -- all licensed amateurs at home and abroad -- but 'Voor buitenlandse deelnemers gelden enkel verbindingen met Belgische stations.'

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off UBA's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-18.
What the source says: uba.be/en/node/2457 (BMA Contest, page in Dutch on UBA's English site), 2. Datum en duur: '21/09/2025 van 08.00 tot 12.00 uur lokale tijd (06:00 tot 10:00 UTC)'. 1. Naam en doel: 'BMA (Belgian Mill Award) contest / Promoten van het Belgische wind-, water- en rosmolen patrimonium.' 5. Categorieen: 'HF band (80m SSB)' and 'VHF band (2m SSB en FM)'. 7. Deelname en vermogen: 'Alle radioamateurs uit binnen- en buitenland die beschikken over de nodige licentie voor bovenvermelde categorieen kunnen deelnemen. ... Voor buitenlandse deelnemers gelden enkel verbindingen met Belgische stations.' 8. Rapport as quoted in the exchange field. 12. Deadline: 'Alle logs dienen te worden ingediend tenlaatste op 5 oktober via de website.' UBA's own contest calendar gives the 2026 edition as 20/09/2026 06:00 to 10:00.
Recorded caveats: MANUAL, DELIBERATELY, AND UBA'S PAGE IS STALE: the rules page still carries the 2025 date while UBA's contest calendar lists 20/09/2026. Both dates are the third Sunday of September, but 'the Sunday nearest 21 September' fits them equally and UBA states no rule at all, so neither ordinal is asserted and both published dates are recorded as given. The page also says 'Voor het volledig reglement consulteer de BMA website' -- the complete rules live at belgianmillaward.be, off UBA's site; everything encoded here comes from UBA's own page. log_deadline_days is unset: UBA gives a fixed calendar date ('tenlaatste op 5 oktober'), not an interval.

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