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BREAKING NEWS – New Youth Plaques on offer for 2024!
The Oceania DX Contest committee is proud to announce four new late awards being added to the contest program this year!
After approaches from ComTek Radio to sponsor a Youth MultiOp Phone and CW award for Oceania, and from the WE3BS Youth Meme Culture Association to sponsor a Phone and CW Single op AWARD for Youth only a couple of weeks before the contest, the committee has been scrambling to get everything in place to bring these important awards to life for the 2024 contest! The details of these additional awards are now available!
We welcome the opportunity to promote youth in amateur radio and hope that they have a great contest!
| OCEANIA PHONE YOUTH Multi-Op
OCEANIA PHONE CW Multi-Op Highest scoring youth team (all operators no older than 25 years age at the start of the contest) in the Oceania Phone M1, M2 or MM categories Sponsored by Comtek Radio |
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| NORTH AMERICA PHONE YOUTH Single-Op ALL Band
NORTH AMERICA CW YOUTH Single-Op ALL Band Highest scoring youth entrant (no older than 25 years age at the start of the contest) from North America in any of the Phone Single Operator categories Sponsored by WE3BS Youth Meme Culture Association |
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Welcome to our new 2024 sponsor for the Newcomer Plaques
The Oceania DX Contest committee is pleased to announce we have a new sponsor for the Oceania Phone and CW Newcomer category plaques for 2024. Following the end of the sponsorship arrangement with the Oceania DX Group, ComTek Radio, Australia’s newest Flex Radio dealership has stepped up and provided their support for this award in 2024. Thanks Steve VK6SJ for your business’ ongoing support!
Get Ready for the 79th Oceania DX Contest – 2024
We are counting down the days to the next Oceania DX Contest event!
Are you ready?
The Phone contest will be held on Saturday 5th October, starting at 0600 UTC
The CW contest will be held on Saturday 12th October, starting 0600 UTC
This is the 79th running of the Oceania DX Contest, and with the solar conditions the way they are, we are expecting some big things from all of our contestants this year! Solar conditions are the best they have been in more than a decade, so your opportunity to make contact with stations in Oceania has never been better! We look forward to seeing you all on the air on both weekends, and expect many stations from Oceania to be calling CQ Contest looking for your calls!
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To see the rules for this year, head on over to our rules page (here)
Whats new this year?
In this year’s contest, the committee is pleased to announce some new award plaques have been introduced. The aim is to stimulate more interest in participating in the Oceania DX Contest from some of the harder to work continents from Oceania. To support this objective, we are pleased to announce two new awards:
 Image courtesy rawpixel.com / Freepik AFRICA PHONE Award for the highest scoring entrant from Africa in the Phone, Single Operator All Band category of the contest. Sponsored by Karsono Suyanto YB0NDT |
 Image courtesy rawpixel.com / Freepik SOUTH AMERICA PHONE Award for the highest scoring entrant from South America in the Phone, Single Operator All Band category of the contest. Sponsored by Karsono Suyanto YB0NDT |
In addition to these two new continental awards, we have a new award for New Zealand based CW operators
 NEW ZEALAND CW
Single Operator ALL BAND Low Power Award for the highest scoring entrant from New Zealand in the CW Single Operator ALL Band LOW power category. Sponsored by Yannick Devos ZL4YY |
So tune up your antennas, and warm up your amplifiers! We hope to see you all on the bands very soon!
73 from the Oceania DX Contest Organizing Committee