2007 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 over the last three years due to a huge promotional effort by a joint Australian and New Zealand Committee. The 2007 contest is on the following dates:

PHONE: 0800 UTC Saturday 6 October to 0800 UTC Sunday 7 October 2007

CW: 0800 UTC Saturday 13 October to 0800 UTC Sunday 14 October 2007

The exchange is callsign, RS(T) and serial number.
DX stations only work Oceania stations and Oceania stations can work all stations world-wide.

Special Notes for 2007

All email logs are now 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

Electronic logging is compulsory for logs containing more than 50 contacts. See rule 12 for details. While paper logging is still acceptable for a few contacts, it is much easier for the contest committee to get the results out quickly if electronic logs are provided.

Electronic logs are to be in Cabrillo format which is now generated by all of the popular contest logging software programs. Alternatively entrants can use the forms at http://www.b4h.net/cabforms/ to manually create and submit a Cabrillo file.

Portable prefixes must be inserted in front of the home callsign, e.g., W1XXX operating in ZL1 would sign as ZL1/W1XXX.

If the station worked does not provide a serial number, then log the received number as 001. See rule 7. This new provision allows credit for contacts with stations that are not in the Oceania DX Contest.

A reminder that Single-Op Single Band logs are to record ALL contacts made by the station - both on the band chosen for the entry and on any other bands.

Stations must log a minimum of 10 contacts to be eligible for an award.

Click here for the 2007 rules

Hints for submitting email logs to the robot:

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

PHONE logs are to be sent to ph@oceaniadxcontest.com and CW logs to cw@oceaniadxcontest.com