[CQ-Contest] 2020 75th Oceania DX Contest - counting down the final days!

[bdm556 at bigpond.com]

Calling all contesters - help us celebrate the 75th year of the Oceania DX
Contest!

First established in 1934 and earlier known as the VK/ZL contest, the
Oceania DX Contest continues to grow. Please join us again for the 75th
running of our international HF radio activity over the first two weekends
of October.

PHONE: 06:00 UTC Saturday 3rd Oct to 06:00 UTC Sunday 4th Oct 2020
CW: 06:00 UTC Saturday 10th Oct to 06:00 UTC Sunday 11th Oct 2020

Note the new operating times - this year the contest starts and ends at
06:00 UTC. Otherwise the arrangements are the same as last year. See
http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/html/rules.html for the latest version of
the rules and list of plaques.

Thanks to our generous sponsors, numerous plaques are up for grabs again
this year - and here are the new ones available for 2020:

Ron Wright ZL1AMO Memorial Award: WORLD (non-Oceania) Phone + CW Single-Op
Plaque
OCEANIA Phone MM (Multiple-Operators and Multiple-Transmitters) Plaque
OCEANIA SOUTHEAST ASIA Phone Single-Op Plaque (Philippines, East Malaysia,
Brunei Darussalam, and East Timor)
AUSTRALIA Phone Single-Op YL Plaque
AUSTRALIA CW Single-Op All Band QRP Plaque
INDONESIA Phone Single-Op 40M Plaque for Advanced and Extra Class licensees

We encourage everyone to have a go and submit a log, even if you only make
one or two QSOs, so we can verify these QSOs when calculating the final
scores for all entrants. Upload your log via
http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/html/enter.html .

Any questions? See our web site at
http://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/index.html or send an email to
mailto:info at oceaniadxcontest.com .

73 and see you in the pileups!

Oceania DX Contest Committee (ZL3GA, VK3GK, VK3MI/ZL1AZE, VK3TZ, VK4FH,
VK4QS, VK7GN, YB0NDT)