Founded, January 2006
31,241 members strong
as of 17-Jul-2026
This activity began in April 2010 to encourage SKCC members to get on the air and work one another throughout the month, not just during the club's scheduled sprints, contests, and special events.
The idea is to see how many unique SKCC numbers you can accumulate during any given month. At the beginning of each month, you will have a 15-day window to enter the number of SKCC members you worked during the previous month.
Each participant's tally for each month will be displayed on the Brag results page. No prizes, no wallpaper, just braggin' rights!
1. Your count starts fresh each month. You may contact the same members from one month to the next, but you can only count a member once during a month -- no dupes, no multiple-band contacts with the same member.
2. Membership numbers must be exchanged by both operators during a contact, using CW.
3. Only straight keys, sideswipers (cooties), or bugs may be used for the Brag. For details, see the club's policy on approved keying devices here.
4. You may operate on any band, in keeping with any restrictions your license class imposes. Use of our schedule page is encouraged.
5. Use whatever power level you need to complete the QSO; there are no endorsements or breakdowns by power level for this activity.
6. Contacts count toward your Brag total no matter what day of the month you make them. The only exception is the club's four sprints: QSOs made during the Straight Key Sprint (SKS), the Straight Key Sprint Europe (SKSE), the Straight Key Sprint Asia (SKSA), or the Weekend Sprintathon (WES) do not count toward the Brag. Contacts made during every other activity DO count, including the SKCC QSO Party, Straight Key Night, and the Slow Speed Saunter.
7. During the club's anniversary celebration each January, stations operating as K3Y special-event stations, and stations holding QSOs with K3Y stations, may count those contacts toward their January Brag totals. As stated in Rule 6, however, no station (whether K3Y or non-K3Y) may count QSOs made during the club's sprints, even when a sprint falls during the anniversary event.
8. If you discover a mistake in your entry after it has been submitted you can correct it by resubmitting the data, provided the time window for submitting is still open. When resubmitting, you must re-enter ALL of the data, not just the correction. However, once the Brag month submissions page has been closed, there can be no further changes or additions.
9. Beginning in the reporting month of January 2018, we will have a bonus member, to be announced in advance. A Brag contact with a bonus member is worth an additional 25 points.
2026 Brag Bonus Stations
| Month | Call Sign | Name | SKCC # |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | N2ZUT | Jim | 23313S |
| Feb | K8AQM | Ted | 1629S |
| March | N0CW | Chuck | 23240S |
| April | NQ8T | Steve | 5919S |
| May | KB1WOD | Dave | 10530S |
| June | KK0I | Jack | 2370S |
| July | VE2KM | Tony | 18420T |
| Aug | AI5BE | Tim | 28998S |
| Sep | KA3BPN | Tony | 29671S |
| Oct | DL4FN | Peter | 26830S |
| Nov | W4CLW | Charles | 27246T |
| Dec | KG5OWB | Terry | 18054S |
Operators interested in serving as a Brag bonus station at some point in the future, please drop me a note at the email address below.
To help you keep tabs on your contacts, you can download a blank tally sheet here.
For more information, or if you have questions, contact The Brag Manager.
The Brag submission window normally closes at 2400Z on the 15th of the month.
You can submit or view Brag Results here.