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You are invited to participate in the traditional ES Open HF Championship Contest held on 3rd Saturday of April, i.e. 19th of April!
Contest bands: 80m and 40m simultaneously. Foreign (non ES) participants can work only ES-stations during the contest (ES-stations can also work each other).
Due to the ongoing war in the Ukraine QSO-s with stations from Russia and Byelorussia are not counted in this contest and will not give any points.
The contest starts at 5:00 UTC and has 4 legs (subcontests), each lasting 1 hour. Any ES-station can be contacted twice during this hour on 80m and twice on 40m - one QSO in CW and one in SSB on both bands! So, maximum number of QSO-s with the same station during the whole contest (in mixed category) can be 16 (4x4). The contest ends at 8:59 UTC.
Contest exchange: RS(T) + serial No, starting 001 (number is continuous).
Each CW QSO gives 2 points, each SSB QSO 1 point.
Different ES-call areas (prefixes ES0 - ES9) serve as multipliers on each band and mode (max 40)!
Score: Sum of QSO points x total multiplier.
The complete rules of the contest can be found here!
The Contest Committee recommends DXLog or N1MM+ logging software for this contest. To set up N1MM - see the instructions here!
Results of the previous years can be seen here!
Send your log (in Cabrillo-format) within 7 days to: esopen@erau.ee or
upload it from the ES-Open web-page at esopen.erau.ee
CU in ES Open 2025!
ERAU HF Committee
The Estonian Radio Amateurs Union (ERAÜ) turns 90 years on March 1st! The society was registered by the Estonian authorities as a union in March 1935, but the actual activities of the society started in September 1935 with the first general meeting held and the first board elected. ERAÜ became the member of IARU in 1938. With the Soviet occupation in 1940 the activities of the union stopped and ERAÜ was only restored in 1991 after Estonia regained its independence. IARU restored ERAÜ-s membership in 1992. ERAÜ plans to celebrate its 90th anniversary with a special operation in September 2025.
ERAÜ Board
OHDXF and CCF will organise a traditional DX and contest meeting in April in Tallinn at the Tallink Spa Conference Hotel! The main day of the event will be April 5th with presentations and a dinner in the evening. More info from the OHDXF webpage here!
See the finalised programme here!
Welcome to Tallinn!
In August Estonian amateur radio celebrated its 100th anniversary! It is known that schoolboys in Pärnu built and completed their first amateur radio equipment (was a receiver) on August 5th, 1924 - this date is considered the start of amateur radio hobby in the country.
To celebrate this date, a special event station ES1924TE was activated for 2 weeks - activity dates were 5.08.-18.08.2024. The suffix TE reminds about the first "invented" call-signs the Estonian hobby pioneers started to use - first known calls on air were TE2OL and TE2WA. ES1924TE was active on all amateur radio bands and most common modes, more than 14000 QSO's were made during this period.
We also created a special web-site for the event and launched an award programme. To get an award you needed to collect 100 points - if you made QSO-s with ES1924TE, check from the web-site below if you have got a right to download this nice award! We will also send out a QSL-card via bureau to all who have requested it or sent us a card.
See the ES1924TE special web-site and read about the award programme here!
Thank you for calling us and for overall good activity!
ERAÜ board
We have updated the Estonian "firsts" tables (DXCC count) on VUSHF bands, that can be followed from the link below. If you find that you have a QSO with an ES- (or former UR2-) station before the date in the table or that your country is not in the list at all (but you have a QSO), please let us know via e-mail to es2nj[ät]erau.ee.
Gratefully,
VHF Committee
ERAÜ HF Committee is keeping comparative top-lists on the Baltic countries' CQ WW results. Please check the current best standings below.
