Oceania DX Contest

This year’s OCDX contest takes place on:

08:00 UTC Saturday 1^st October to 08:00 UTC Sunday 2^nd October 2016 (phone)

and

08:00 UTC Saturday 8^th October to 08:00 UTC Sunday 9^th October 2016 (CW)

The historic Oceania DX Contest (OCDX, originally the “VK/ZL contest”), one of the world’s oldest amateur radio contests, has been running for eight decades since the mid-1930s.

The contest is an annual competition to make phone and CW contacts between amateur radio stations in Oceania and DX (the rest of the world).  The fun takes place on the first and second full weekends in October every year, with separate 24-hour sections for phone (SSB) and CW (Morse code).

Last year’s event was a resounding success.  Participation from Oceaniawas markedly up on the previous year, with activity from 3D2, 9M6, DU, KH2, KH8, NH0, NH2, P29, TX3, V73 and V85 in addition to the usual stalwarts from VK, YB, KH6 and ZL. Remarkably, more than twenty newcontinental records were set in 2015.

This year, we know of at least 6 Oceania DXpeditions during the contest including VK9L Lord Howe Island (OC-004).

August 7: our second 2016 OCDX press release 

http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/