Estonian HF Cup (ES LL KV)

When it runs

Dates set by the sponsor each year (no derivable rule)

• 1000 → 1059

Times are the sponsor's own clock in Europe/Tallinn, so the UTC instant moves an hour across a daylight-saving boundary. The runnings below are the resolved instants.

The sponsor announces these dates a year at a time and there is no rule to derive, so this calendar holds only the years they have published: 2026.

Next runnings

1. 0700Z Sat 3 Oct → 0759Z Sat 3 Oct · 59m2026

   in 2 days

2. 0800Z Sat 7 Nov → 0859Z Sat 7 Nov · 59m2026

   in 37 days

3. 0800Z Sat 5 Dec → 0859Z Sat 5 Dec · 59m2026

   in 65 days

Operating

Modes

CW / SSB

Bands

80m

CW below 3600 kHz and SSB above it; 3530-3560 kHz and 3600-3650 kHz are recommended.

Exchange

RS(T) and a continuous serial number from 001.

Power categories

Low Power 100 WQRP 10 W

Logs

Cabrillo

Who can enter

Entry limited to ES. K stations may be worked but cannot submit an entry.

Entry is for stations registered in and operating from Estonia, plus holders of ES callsigns abroad who use their ES call with the host country's prefix.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor

Yes. The rule on this page was read off ERAU's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-19.

What the source says

erau.ee 'ES LL KV reeglid' (PDF). 4.2: 'Voistlused viiakse labi 9-s etapis laupaeva hommikuti vastavalt ERAU kalenderplaanile.' (The competition is held in 9 stages on Saturday mornings according to ERAU's calendar plan.) 4.3: 'Etappide algus on 10:00 Eesti aja (EA) jargi ja lopp 11:00 EA' with four periods, the last running 10:45-10:59 EA. 4.4: modes CW and SSB on 80 m, CW below 3600 kHz and SSB above, 3530-3560 and 3600-3650 kHz recommended. 4.5: up to 100 W, QRP 10 W. 4.6: exchange RS(T) and a continuous serial from 001; CW scores 2 points and SSB 1. 7: logs are due 'hiljemalt voistlusele jargneva nadala neljapaeval kella 09.59'ks (EA)' -- by 09:59 Estonian time on the Thursday of the following week. Second source, published separately by ERAU: its 2026 calendar lists all nine dates -- 03.01, 14.02, 07.03, 04.04, 02.05, 05.09, 03.10, 07.11 and 05.12 -- and prints their UTC windows as 08:00-08:59 for stages 1, 2, 3, 8 and 9 and 07:00-07:59 for stages 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Recorded caveats

SPONSOR-ANCHORED LOCAL TIME, and ERAU's own calendar proves the reading: 10:00-10:59 Estonian time is 08:00-08:59 UTC in winter (EET) and 07:00-07:59 in summer (EEST), which is exactly the split ERAU prints across the nine stages. The rules give no date rule at all -- 4.2 defers to the calendar plan -- so the dates are manual and taken from ERAU's published 2026 calendar. Eight of the nine are the first Saturday of their month; February's is the second. The log deadline is 'the Thursday of the following week', which is not a fixed number of days from the end of each stage, so it is recorded here rather than as log_deadline_days. Stages 4.3 also splits each hour into four periods; that is a scoring device inside one continuous hour.

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