Oceania DX Contest, Phone

Oceania's own international contest, phone leg: 24 hours from 0600 UTC on the first full weekend in October, when VK, ZL and the Pacific are the DX.

Rules at oceaniadxcontest.comThe rules are the sponsor's. This page holds the dates and the facts.

When it runs

First full weekend of October

0600Z Saturday → 0600Z Sunday

Times are UTC, as the sponsor states them.

Next runnings

0600Z Sat 3 Oct → 0600Z Sun 4 Oct · 24h2026
in 2 days
0600Z Sat 2 Oct → 0600Z Sun 3 Oct · 24h2027
in 366 days
0600Z Sat 7 Oct → 0600Z Sun 8 Oct · 24h2028
in 737 days
0600Z Sat 6 Oct → 0600Z Sun 7 Oct · 24h2029
in 1101 days
0600Z Sat 5 Oct → 0600Z Sun 6 Oct · 24h2030
in 1465 days

Operating

Modes: SSB
Bands: 160m80m40m20m15m10m
160M, 80M, 40M, 20M, 15M and 10M (no WARC bands)
Exchange: RS(T) and a progressive serial number starting at 001
Power categories: High Power 1500 WLow Power 100 WQRP 5 W
Logs: Cabrillo · ocdx.contesting.com
Who can enter: Anyone, anywhere.
Committee rules: 'There is no penalty for working non-Oceania stations but contacts between non-Oceania stations will score no points or multiplier credits.'

Where this comes from

Checked against the sponsor: Yes. The rule on this page was read off Oceania DX Contest Committee's own published rules. Link last confirmed 2026-08-17.
What the source says: The recurrence in words comes from the WIA, a co-sponsor, at https://www.wia.org.au/members/contests/oceania/: 'PH - The first full weekend in October each year from 0600 UTC Saturday to 0600 UTC Sunday' and 'CW - The second full weekend in October each year from 0600 UTC Saturday to 0600 UTC Sunday.' Everything else is from the committee's own 2026 rules (https://www.oceaniadxcontest.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ocdx26-rules-0.pdf, embedded at /rules): 'Phone Section: 06:00 UTC Saturday 3 October to 06:00 UTC Sunday 4 October 2026'; 'THE BANDS that can be used are 160M, 80M, 40M, 20M, 15M and 10M (no WARC bands)'; 'EXCHANGE: RS(T) report plus a progressive contact serial number starting at 001'; 'High power entrants must not exceed a total output power of 1500 Watts peak envelope power (PEP) ... Low power entrants must not exceed a total output power of 100 Watts PEP and QRP entrants must not exceed a total output power of 5 Watts PEP.' The rule reproduces the committee's own dates in both directions: the first full weekend of October is October 3-4 in 2026 and was October 5-6 in 2024.
Recorded caveats: The log deadline is announced each year rather than set as an interval -- 25 October in 2026, 31 October in earlier years -- so this calendar does not compute one. country is 'OC' because the sponsor is a joint VK/ZL committee rather than a national society; see data/sources.md.

Something wrong? How to report it — a link to the sponsor's own page is all it takes.

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