HA YL-OM Contest

Hungary's YL-OM contest on the weekend nearest 8 March: an hour on 2m then ninety minutes on 80m, exchanging first names and how long you have been licensed.

Rules at ylom.mrasz.huThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

When it runs

Sunday nearest March 8

1330Z → 1600Z Sunday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

1330Z Sun 7 Mar → 1600Z Sun 7 Mar · 2h 30m2027
in 157 days
Logs due 1600Z Mon 22 Mar
1330Z Sun 5 Mar → 1600Z Sun 5 Mar · 2h 30m2028
in 521 days
Logs due 1600Z Mon 20 Mar
1330Z Sun 11 Mar → 1600Z Sun 11 Mar · 2h 30m2029
in 892 days
Logs due 1600Z Mon 26 Mar
1330Z Sun 10 Mar → 1600Z Sun 10 Mar · 2h 30m2030
in 1256 days
Logs due 1600Z Mon 25 Mar

Operating

Modes: SSB / FM
Bands: 80m2m
VHF first, 13:30-14:30 UTC: 2m SSB 144.150-144.390 MHz and FM 145.250-145.575 MHz except 145.500. HF second, 14:30-16:00 UTC: 80m SSB 3.600-3.720 MHz.
Exchange: RS, the age of the licence in years and the operator's first name -- for example '59 01 Kata'.
Logs: due 15 days after the end · ylom.mrasz.hu
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
'Resztvevok: Hazai es magyarul beszelo kulfoldi radioamator' -- Hungarian amateurs and Hungarian-speaking amateurs abroad. There is no entity restriction; the practical limit is that contacts are made in Hungarian.

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off MRASZ's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-19.
What the source says: ylom.mrasz.hu/yl-om-versenykiiras. 'Ideje: minden evben marcius 8-hoz legkozelebb eso hetvegen, 2026. marcius 08. vasarnap / URH 13.30-14.30 UTC / RH 14.30-16.00 UTC' (Held every year on the weekend nearest to 8 March; in 2026 Sunday 8 March, VHF 13:30-14:30 UTC and HF 14:30-16:00 UTC). Bands: 80 m SSB 3.600-3.720 MHz; 2 m SSB 144.150-144.390 and FM 145.250-145.575 MHz except 145.500. 'Kontrollszam: RS + az adoengedely kora ... + az operator keresztneve. Pl: 59 01 Kata' (RS + the age of the licence + the operator's first name). Points: 5 for a YL-OM or YL-YL QSO, 1 for OM-OM. 'Hatarido: a versenyt koveto 15. nap (hetfo)' (deadline: the 15th day after the contest, a Monday). 'Resztvevok: Hazai es magyarul beszelo kulfoldi radioamator' (participants: Hungarian and Hungarian-speaking foreign amateurs), and QSOs are conducted in Hungarian.
Recorded caveats: MRASZ ties the date to International Women's Day: the weekend nearest 8 March, run on the Sunday. Encoded as the Sunday nearest 8 March, which gives 8 March 2026 -- the date MRASZ prints -- because 8 March 2026 is itself a Sunday. Only that one year is independently confirmed, so the rule is recorded as MRASZ's wording rather than as a tested multi-year pattern. The two halves are contiguous (VHF then HF with no gap), so they are one span rather than two sessions; the band split is in bands_note because a record cannot state bands per session. FM is in submodes because it is not in the catalog's mode vocabulary.

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