[CQ-Contest] RESULTS OF 2010 OCEANIA DX CONTEST

[Brian Miller]

The Oceania DX Contest Committee is pleased to advise that the results of the 2010 Oceania DX Contest are now available at http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/2010_Results.htm .

A total of 1092 logs were processed which is a new record and a big step up from the previous record of 999 logs in 2009.  This ongoing increase in participation is most encouraging and can be attributed to a combination of factors including the introduction of new categories and plaques, improving conditions on the higher bands and growing awareness of the contest. As well as the more common VK, ZL, YB and KH6 stations there were a number of rarer Oceania entities active including V85, 9M6, AH0, DU, and FO8.

The increased participation and improved conditions meant that overall QSO activity also reached a new high with 21% more QSOs being logged in 2010 than in 2009. In particular, the 15M band really came to life and ended up carrying the majority of the traffic in the contest.

Plenty of records were also broken. Of special note is the outstanding effort by David Mueller NH2T who set a new record for Oceania in the highly competitive CW Single-Op ALL band category. David’s score of 8.17 million easily surpasses the previous record score set by VK6AA in 2009.

Several changes were made to the categories for the 2010 contest – the Single Operator categories were split into low power and high power categories, and the Multi-Single category was split into one transmitter (M1) and two transmitter (M2) categories. The Committee is pleased to note that the new categories appear to be having the desired effect of boosting participation from low power stations and from smaller multiple operator teams that have limited resources.

The next Oceania DX contest will be held on the first two full weekends of October 2011 as follows:

PHONE: 08:00 UTC Saturday 1 October to 08:00 UTC Sunday 2 October 2011
CW: 08:00 UTC Saturday 8 October to 08:00 UTC Sunday 9 October 2011

The full set of rules for the 2011 contest is available from our web site at http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/rules.pdf .

Finally and most importantly, thank you to everyone who participated in the 2010 contest and made it such a success. We look forward to seeing you all again in the 2011 event. There should be more sun spots and even better HF conditions to make it the biggest and best Oceania DX Contest party yet!

73 from

Oceania DX Contest Committee
ZL1AZE/VK3, ZL3GA, VK2HN, VK3TZ, VK4TI, VK6DXI, VK7GN