CQ Amateur Radio

Announcing: The 2020 CQ World Wide WPX Contest

The CQ World Wide WPX Contest is the world’s largest everyone-works-everyone radio contest.

Two new overlay categories are available this year: Classic Operator for single ops using one radio and no spotting, and Classic Multi-One, for those who want to share just one radio. See the complete rules for more details.

Contest Basics

Each contest mode is a separate event running from 0000 UTC Saturday until 2359 UTC Sunday. SSB is the last full weekend of March and CW is the last full weekend of May.

Amateurs worldwide try to contact as many amateurs and prefixes as during which no QSO is logged. Multi-operator stations may operate the full 48 hours.

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