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
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:
Marek, SP7DQR has produced a freeware program that you can use to create a Cabrillo formatted log for electronic submission. 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
Contest report and photos from Mike W7DRA
Last revised: 6 June 2009
