The International Amateur Radio Union entrusted Hungary, the Hungarian Radio Amateur Society with organizing the first High Speed Telegraphy world championship in 1995, held in Siofok. After 22 years, in September 2017, we – Hungarian radioamateurs – can host this event again, inviting the world’s best telegraphers to show their skills and knowledge. During the available freetime after the two-day long competition, we would like to show them some of the sights of Esztergom city and the region around it, as well as our country’s culture.

Samuel Morse invented the ancestor of today’s telegraph system, making it possible to send telegrams using electricity, revolutionizing communications. Morse code was in use until the end of the 20th century, by military organizations and shipping for the longest time out of all professional services. Today his code is only used by radio amateurs, despite the ever growing spread of digital modes, but as an intellectual sport, as well as in everyday radio traffic, Mr. Morse’s great invention lives on.
Nowadays high speed telegraphers can use the code and operate at a significantly higher level than the former “professionals”. They can receive and transmit it with such a high speed, where the weight of one basic element, a dit is only a matter of milliseconds. It is worth listening to the sample files available under the “Records” tab, which gives examples of the telegraphers’ exemplary skills.

On the HST World Championship the participants, from 4 female and 5 male categories, can try their skills and knowledge in the following 4 competition events:

Receiving tests
Receiving telegrams of letters, figures and mixed characters (letters, figures and other marks such as full stop, comma, slash, question mark and equation mark). Competitors can make a maximum of 10 attempts with different speeds, each type but only 3 of the received telegrams – freely chosen by the participant – are corrected and used to calculate the final result. Every telegram is 1 minute long, it may consist up to 5 reception errors to stay valid. The speed can be adjusted with 10 characters per minute steps.

Transmitting tests
Transmitting telegrams of letters, figures and mixed characters (letters, figures and other signs). Each transmission test is 1 minute long, and it can consist a maximum of uncorrected 3 mistakes. There are only 4 attempts possible, within the available 15 minutes counted from entering the transmitting site.

Rufz
Callsign receiving, using the RufzXP program. If a participant copies a callsign correctly, the speed increases, otherwise it decreases. The higher the speed is, the more points a callsign is worth. One attempt is made up of 50 callsigns, and each participant can make as many as 2 attempts. (www.rufzxp.net)

Morse Runner
The participants use a real, on-air contest simulator program where there are 4 stations calling simultanously. One session is 10 minutes long, each participant can make as many as 2 attempts. (http://dxatlas.com/MorseRunner/ settings under the “Rules” tab!)

The results are announced by categories, by competition events and overall.

WORLD RECORDS

WORLD RECORDS
Event	Gender	Callsign	Name	Speed/Score	Previous record	Year
RX Letters	Female	EW8NK	SHAVIALENKA Hanna	290	280	2013	Sample
RX Letters	Male	RV9CPV	PANCHNINE Evgueni	300	290	2009	Sample
RX Figures	Female	UA4FGO	VYAZOVSKAYA Yulia	310	300	2013	Sample
RX Figures	Male	EW8NW	OSTROVSKI Oleg	320	310	2009	Sample
RX Mixed	Female	EW8NK	SHAVIALENKA Hanna	240	230	2012	Sample
RX Mixed	Male	EW7SH	SHVIADKO Siarhei	250	240	2015	Sample
TX Letters	Female	EU1YI	TETERSKAYA Irina	260	255	2008
TX Letters	Male	EU7KI	BINDASOV Andrei	283	268	2007
TX Figures	Female	EW8NK	SHAVIALENKA Hanna	233	230	2012
TX Figures	Male	EW8NW	OSTROVSKI Oleg	254	251	2006
TX Mixed	Female	EU1YI	TETERSKAYA Irina	217	183	2007
TX Mixed	Male	EU7KI	BINDASOV Andrei	230	214	2006
RUFZ	Female	LZ2CWW	GETZOVA Teodora	252082		2012
RUFZ	Male	EW8GS	HAUREYLENKA Stanislau	269824		2012
Morse Runner	Female	RA4FVL	SADUKOVA Anna	4686		2011
Morse Runner	Male	LZ4UU	GETZOV Iliya	4798		2012

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