The Oceania Contest

The Oceania contests, New Zealand's prime and only international contests are almost here. Give it a go and have some contacts to help make ZL available to the world.

CW: 0800 UTC Saturday 8 October to 0800 UTC Sunday 9 October

Bands: 160 m - 10 m (no WARC bands).

Exchange: RS(T) report plus a three or four digit number starting at 001 and incrementing by one for each contact.

Entry Categories:

Single-Op - Single Operator, All Bands or Single Band.

Multi-One - Multiple Operator, Single Transmitter, All Bands.
Multi-Multi - Multiple Operator, Multiple Transmitter, All Bands.

SWL - Short Wave Listener (Receive Only) All Bands.

Multiplier: The number of different prefixes worked.
The same prefix may be counted once on each band for multiplier credit.

Contact Points: 20 points per contact on 160 m; 10 on 80 m; 5 on 40 m; 1 on 20 m; 2 on 15 m; and 3 on 10 m. Final score is the sum of the contact points from all bands multiplied by the multiplier.

Deadline: Logs in cabrillo format must be emailed or postmarked NO LATER than 7 November 2005.

Further information on the contest is available from the Oceania DX Contest web site at www.oceaniadxcontest.com and full rules are in the 2004/5 callbook.

Stan White ZL2ST

Source: NZART

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