After skipping 2 years you are invited to participate in the traditional ES Open HF Championship Contest held on 3rd Saturday of April, i.e. 20th 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 tours (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) before May 1st to:    or

upload it from the ES-Open web-page at esopen.erau.ee 

CU in ES Open 2024!

ERAU HF Committee
  

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