2026 Idaho QSO Party

The Plan

Jay, WA0WWW, and I will activate 16 counties in the ID QSO Party on March 14 and 15, 2026 (UTC) using my call of K7TQ.  All of our operation will be on CW.  We will start in Adams, south for Washington and Payette, east for Gem and Boise, and north through the bonus county of Vallely to end the day in Latah.  Sunday we will start in Latah making a loop east and north to our second bonus county, Clearwater, then to Bonner and back south to Latah again.  In both bonus counties, we will operate for an hour on 20, 15 and maybe 10 m.  In the non-bonus counties, we'll try to be around 20 or 15 m on frequencies ending in 0365, such as 14036.5 or 15036.5 MHz.  After our sunset at 0150 UTC, will add 40 and possibly 80 m.

Watch the RBN to see what frequency we are on.  You can work us each time we change bands or counties.

Here is a schedule of when we hope to enter and leave each county plus a color coded map of the Idaho counties we hope to activate.

Saturday, March 14, 2026 (UTC)

• Adams (ADM)        1600-1628

• Washington (WAS)   1628-1728

• Payette (PAY)      1728-1757

• Gem (GEM)          1757-1841

• Boise (BOI)        1841-1930

• Valley (VAL)       1930-2048

• Adams (ADM)        2048-2119

• Idaho (IDA)        2119-2359

Sunday, March 15, 2026 (UTC)

• Idaho (IDA)        0000-0005

• Lewis (LEW)        0005-0035

• Nez Perce (NEZ)    0035-0125

• Latah (LAT)        0125-0153

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• Latah (LAT)        1400-1455

• Clearwater (CLE)   1455-1631

• Latah (LAT)        1631-1649

• Shoshone (SHO)     1649-1738

• Benewah (BEN)      1738-1828

• Kootenai (KOO)     1828-2034

• Bonner (BON)       2034-2112

• Kootenai (KOO)     2112-2221

• Benewah (BEN)      2221-2252

• Latah (LAT)        2252-2325