UBA ON Contest, 80m/40m CW

A leg of the UBA ON Contest, a four-Sunday series run by the Mechelen section each autumn.

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: 2026.

Next runnings

0600Z Sun 11 Oct → 1000Z Sun 11 Oct · 4h2026
in 10 days
Logs due 1000Z Fri 16 Oct

Operating

Modes: CW
Bands: 80m40m
Exchange: Stations in Belgium send RS(T) + a QSO number from 001 + their UBA section (non-members give XXX, the national club stations give UBA); stations outside Belgium send RS(T) + a QSO number from 001.
Power categories: OpenQRP (SSB) 10 WQRP (CW) 5 W
Logs: Cabrillo · due 5 days after the end · contestupload.uba.be
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
'The UBA Section MCL. Mechelen invites all radio amateurs to participate', and categories 'd Foreign stations' and 'e Foreign SWL' exist -- but 'For foreign stations, only QSOs with Belgian stations are valid. This also applies to ON stations participating from abroad.'

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/hf/contest-rules/on-contest, 'ON Contest 2026': 'The UBA Section MCL. Mechelen invites all radio amateurs to participate in the 46th edition of the ON Contest.' 1. Contestperiods: '6 meter Phone/CW 27 September, 2026 from 07:00 UTC to 10:00 UTC deadline logs 2 October / 80/40 meters SSB 4 October, 2026 from 06:00 UTC to 10:00 UTC deadline logs 9 October / 80/40 meters CW 11 October, 2026 from 06:00 UTC to 10:00 UTC deadline logs 16 October / 2 meters Phone/CW 18 October, 2026 from 07:00 UTC to 10:00 UTC deadline logs 23 October'. 4. Contest call and exchange: 'Stations in Belgium: RS(T) + QSO-number from 001 + UBA Section (stations not member of the UBA will give XXX) ... Stations outside Belgium: RS(T) + QSO-number from 001'. Remarks: 'QRP: ... they didn't use more power than 5W in CW or 10W in SSB.' and 'For foreign stations, only QSOs with Belgian stations are valid. This also applies to ON stations participating from abroad.' 9. Deadline: 'The logs must be sent no later than 5 days after the contest.' UBA's own contest calendar repeats each leg's date and window.
Recorded caveats: MANUAL, DELIBERATELY: UBA gives four dated legs and no recurrence rule -- the page identifies the event only as 'the 46th edition'. The 2026 legs fall on consecutive Sundays from the last Sunday of September, but UBA states no ordinal, so none is asserted here. log_deadline_days is exact: UBA prints a deadline date beside each leg and all four are the leg's date plus five days.

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