Bruce Kelley Memorial 1929 QSO Party Results
2025 AWA AM QSO Party Summary
By Dave Parker, WB7WHG
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The 42nd annual Bruce Kelley Memorial 1929 QSO Party was held on the second and third weekends of November 2025, with 41 stations submitting logs. Using the 40M upper band segment the first weekend, and the lower segment the second weekend, seemed to work well. Some prefer the upper part, some the lower – the RTTY contest, 2nd weekend of November, wipes out the lower part, for our first weekend…
This year’s winner of the AWA Bruce Kelley Trophy is WA8UEG, who made 50 1929 contacts from Pennsylvania, using his “Modified Hull Hartley” at 12 Watts input.
The TOP FIVE BK stations this year are: WA8UEG, N8YE, WK3A, KC8ZQS, and K4CHE. This year’s winner of the Miles-Per-Watt award is KN4RRQ, who had a 2291-mile contact with VE7SL, at 9 Watts input, for 255 MPW.
We received 29 submissions using the Dec. 2023-Fillable PDF Log Form, which helps a lot! A few mailed in a filled-in Dec 2023 BK Log Form, which also works well. If you email a hand-written log, please don’t send a photo, they are difficult to work with – mail it instead…
Dupes, and contacts with non-participants (“Mod TX”) don’t count. Please line-through or blank out those entries. For this reason, I call “AWA, AWA, AWA DE WB7WHG”. I avoid calling “CQ” for AWA events. Also, log entries should be “mostly complete”.
New this year; many stations used vintage receivers, including: K9HF R-4B, KB0ROB SX-117, KC3SCY R-4A, KD0SVI SB-310, KK1K SB-600, N2BE SX-115, N4GJV HB 8-Tube Superhet, N8YE 75-A1, NE1S R-390A, VE1ZAC Canadian Marconi CSR5, W1ZB 75-A4, W7JMP SX-100/BC-453, W8PU R-4C, WA3JJT SB-301/SW-3, WA8UEG Drake 2A. N2BE completed 52 AWA QSO’s, using his SX-115, and only wire antennas… My hat’s off to you folks!
We had 388 contacts logged on 80M, 365 on 40M, 22 on 160M, and 54 on 20M, for a total of 829 QSO’s. A slight decrease from last year. Thanks to all who joined in, and we’ll be looking for you on November 14-16, and 21-23, 2026!