Christmas Contest SSB/Digital

The USKA Christmas Contest in the SSB and digital modes takes place annually on the first weekend in December. ‘Digital’ refers to RTTY, PSK31, PSK63, FT8 etc. — one QSO per station and band is permitted for each digital mode. The same software used for the Helvetia Contest can be used for logging.

However, there is a bespoke solution for FT8: WSJT-X-SWISS by HB9BLA

Download:

https://github.com/USKAch/wsjtx-swiss/releases/tag/v2.7.0-swiss

Instructions:

WSJT-X Swiss Edition instructions (PDF on GitHub)

Date

5 December 2026 — SSB from 07:00 UTC to 09:59 UTC, digital from 10:00 UTC to 10:59 UTC.

Log submission

Logs must be submitted via the upload portal contestlog.uska.ch. Receipt of the log will be confirmed by email. Closing date for submissions: Sunday, 13 December 2026.