We are glad to announce that an international team of operators under the call ES9UKR came first in the CQ WPX SSB Contest 2023 in M2 category! The operation was carried out from ES5TV's contest station and an outstanding score of 36.7 million points was achieved (8815 Q-s and 1754 prefixes). The results table can be seen here!

The operators were: UR0MC UR5ECW UR5YKO UR8UQ US0YW US2YW UW7LL UW8SM ES2MC ES2RR ES5JR ES5MARI ES5QA ES5RY ES5TV ES6QC LY1FW RC5A

Special QSL-s were also printed, so, if you had a qso and would like to get a card, please send one to ES QSL bureau and your card will be answered. 

Slava Ukraini!

ERAU HF Committee

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. 

ES firsts on VUSHF

Gratefully,

VHF Committee 

The Estonian radio amateurs' summer camp was successfully held at Torupilli talu (ES6-area, Valgamaa) in the middle of July: 14.-16.07.2023. More than 200 participants from all over Estonia, as well as from Finland, Latvia and Lithuania were at present to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the summer camps' tradition. Excellent weather and nice site made the event memorable to all of us.     

More info and some photo galleries can be found at the Events page here! 

CU next summer!

ERAU Board

ERAÜ has published a comprehensive book on the history of Estonian amateur radio, titled "From morse key to mouse click. Time travel with Estonian radio amateurs". It gives a survey of our hobby from its start in the 1920-ies through the decades up to nowadays - 462 pages, full colour print with many photos, drawings and tables. The book is in Estonian language, but has an English summary at the end (on 7 pages). Written by Teolan Tomson (ES1AO) and Arvo Pihl (ES2MC). The book was presented at the Estonian summer camp on 14 August 2020.

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