You are invited to participate in the traditional ES Open HF Championship Contest held on 3rd Saturday of April, i.e. 18th 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 2026!

ERAU HF Committee  

We are glad to announce that 4 Estonian VUSHF beacons are back on air - we added the 4th beacon on 4m in November (2025). They are all mounted at the Panga Lighthouse (Saaremaa isl, KO18DN) and operate on the following frequencies: 

ES0SIX - 50.437 MHz to a dipole
ES0VHF - 70.037 MHz to a dipole
ES0UHF - 432.475 to a 2x Double Diamond
ES0SHF - 1296.915 to a Alford Slot

Special thanks go to Olle, ES0OK for all the assembling work!

Check them out!

ERAU VHF Committee

In September Estonian national amateur radio society celebrated its 90th anniversary! The society was registered by the Estonian authorities as a union in March 1935, but its actual activities started in September 1935 with the first general meeting held and the first board elected.

To celebrate this, a special event station ES90ERAU was activated for 10 days - activity dates were 20.09.-30.09.2025. ES90ERAU was active on all amateur radio bands and most common modes, more than 18,000 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 at least 90 points - if you made QSO-s with ES90ERAU, check from the web-site below if you have got a right to download this nice award! We will also send out QSL-cards via bureau to all who have requested it or sent us a card. The top-scoring stations in each mode will have a special stamp on the award and this will be sent to them via normal mail, the best 3 overall scores will also get ERAÜ T-shirts. 

See the ES90ERAU special web-site and read about the award programme here!

Thank you for the nice activity!

ERAÜ board