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The Estonian radio amateurs' summer camp in 2025 will be held at Uuskalda puhkeküla (ES3-area, Läänemaa) at the end of June - 27.-29.06. The same site was used in 2020, so many are already familiar with it. Unfortunately the accomodation options in the cabins are very limited, but there is plenty of space for tents and caravans. The official opening of the camp is traditionally on Saturday, 28th at 11 o'clock, but we recommend to arrive alreay on Friday for the evening's get-together. As ERAÜ is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, we also plan a small fest on Saturday evening.
CU at the camp!
ERAU Board
The traditional ES Open HF Championship Contest was successfully held on 3rd Saturday of April, i.e. 19th of April. We are now waiting your logs:
Send your log (in Cabrillo-format) within 7 days to: esopen@erau.ee or
upload (preferred!) it from the ES-Open web-page at esopen.erau.ee
The complete rules of the contest can be found here!
Results of the previous years can be seen here!
Thank you for participation and CU in ES Open 2026!
ERAU HF Committee
The Estonian Radio Amateurs Union (ERAÜ) turned 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
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.
