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Oceania DX Contest


The Oceania DX contest has been around for many years in early October and was known previously as the VK/ZL Contest. Activity has increased in recent years due to a huge promotional effort by the joint Australian and New Zealand  Contest Committee.


Oceania DX Contest Plaques

Latest News: Sponsor announced for the VK Single Operator All Band category
The committee would like to thank Tony Hambling VK3VTH for his generous sponsorship of this new plaque

The Contest Committee is pleased to advise that all outstanding Oceania DX Contest plaques have been dispatched to the award winners.

 


2008 Contest

Latest News: 6 June 2009. Final double checking is under way and the results should be published by the end of June.

The 2008 Oceania DX contest was held on the first two full
weekends of October 2008:

PHONE: 08:00 UTC Saturday 4 October to 08:00 UTC Sunday 5 October
CW: 08:00 UTC Saturday 11 October to 08:00 UTC Sunday 12 October

All
email logs are processed by an email robot. The robot sends an automated email acknowledgement indicating either acceptance or rejection of the log. If you do not receive this acknowledgment, or are encountering difficulty in having the log accepted, then please contact the Contest Committee at
info@oceaniadxcontest.com

Please note that the Cabrillo log must be attached to the email as a callsign.log file - DO NOT zip the file and DO NOT paste the log into the body of the message.
Important - please note before submitting your log:
The "callsign" part of callsign.log must match the CALLSIGN: field in the Cabrillo file. Portable stations such as EI/W5GN must use the '-' symbol in the file the name because the '/' symbol is reserved by the operating system. Therefore, in this example, the Cabrillo file for EI/W5GN is named ei-w5gn.log

The email subject/header line must only contain the callsign - DO NOT include any other text or punctuation characters (except for the '-' mark) in this line.

PHONE logs to
ph@oceaniadxcontest.com
CW logs to
cw@oceaniadxcontest.com

Click here for the full 2008 rules 
Note for SWL logs:

Unfortunately there do not appear to be any software packages that correctly record SWL QSOs. This means that we still have to manually check SWL logs.
It also means that we will relax the rules for a paper SWL log with more than 50 QSOs, and a non-Cabrillo text SWL log via email is also acceptable.
Marek, SP7DQR has produced a freeware program that you can use to create a Cabrillo formatted log for electronic submission.

2008 Contest Logs Received

SSB
CW
SWL
Paper Logs

Article by long term supporter Mike W7DRA in the Finnish Contest Club newsletter PU
Warning, large file, 3.5MB PDF :-)


Report and stunning photos from Mike W7SST

2007 Contest

2007 Results

List of PHONE logs received

List of CW logs received

List of Paper logs received

 Contest report and photos from Mike W7DRA


Last revised: 6 June 2009

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