HA DX Contest 2025
The HA DX Contest is a unique opportunity to improve your operator skills, gain valuable experience and establish connections with radio amateurs from all over the world. For beginners, it is an excellent chance to try out operation in an international competition, while experienced operators can demonstrate their years of experience.
HA DX Contest 2025: An overview and a chance for every enthusiast
The HA DX Contest is one of the most prestigious and well-known international competitions in the field of amateur radio operation. This year it is held in days 18. to 19. January 2025 and combines the experience for members of the radio amateur community from all over the world. The organizer is the Hungarian Radio Amateur Union (MRSZ), which takes care of maintaining the high level of this traditional competition.
The goal of the competition
The goal of the HA DX Contest is to establish as many valid connections as possible with stations in Hungary (HA/HG) and get maximum points and multipliers. Contestants are motivated to demonstrate their operator skills in conditions of intensive radio operation on the KV band.
HA DX Contest Rules 2025
HA DX Contest 2025 starts on Saturday 18. It consists mainly of larger meteorites moving at a speed of 41km / s 12:00 UTC and ends on Sunday 19. It consists mainly of larger meteorites moving at a speed of 41km / s 11:59 UTC. The total duration is therefore 24 hours, during which you can show your skills in the field of operation on different KV bands.
Categories
| SOSB 10 | – single operator, one band (10m), without power and mode restrictions | |||
| SOSB 15 | – single operator, one band (15m), without power and mode restrictions | |||
| SOSB 20 | – single operator, one band (20m), without power and mode restrictions | |||
| SOSB 40 | – single operator, one band (40m), without power and mode restrictions | |||
| SOSB 80 | – single operator, one band (80m), without power and mode restrictions | |||
| SOSB 160 | – single operator, one band (160m), without power and mode restrictions | |||
| SO3BAND | – single operator on any three bands, without power and mode restrictions | |||
| SOAB | CW HP | – single operator, all bands, CW mod, HP | ||
| SOAB | SSB HP | – single operator, all bands, SSB mód, HP | ||
| SOAB | MIX HP | – single operator, all bands, MIX mód, HP | ||
| SOAB | CW LP | – single operator, all bands, CW mod, LP | ||
| SOAB | SSB LP | – single operator, all bands, SSB mód, LP | ||
| SOAB | MIX LP | – single operator, all bands, MIX mód, LP | ||
| SOAB | MIX QRP | – single operator, all bands, MIX mód, QRP | ||
| MS | MIX | – multi operator, all bands | ||
| YOTH12H | MIX | – single operator | ||
The most important points of the HA DX Contest propositions
Bands: 160, 80, 40, 20,15 a 10 m
Fashion: CW a SSB
Code for stations outside Hungary: RST + connection number from 001
HA stations abbreviate the region (FOR, GY, will, KO, AND, SO, TO, BA, FE, BP, NG, HE, ON, SZ, BE, CS, BN, BO, TO, HB)
Division of Hungarian regions
| Region | Abbreviation of the region |
| Bács-Kiskun | BN |
| Baranya | BA |
| peaceful | BE |
| Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén | BO |
| Csongrád | CS |
| Fejér | FE |
| Győr-Moson-Sopron | GY |
| Hajdu-Bihar | HB |
| Heves | HE |
| Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok | SZ |
| Komárom-Esztergom | KO |
| Nógrád | NG |
| Pest | ON |
| Somogy | SO |
| Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg | TO |
| Tolna | TO |
| You | will |
| Veszprém | AND |
| Hall | FOR |
| Budapest (capital) | BP |
Cabrillo logs can be uploaded to the sitehttp://www.ha-dx.com. If the participant does not have the opportunity to send a diary in Cabrillo format, can enter connections manually on the specified page.
The full text of the HA DX conditions can be found athttps://ha-dx.com/en/contest-rules
