Oceania Stations

The aim of the contest is for stations within the Oceania Region is to contact as many other amateur radio stations as possible within the 24 hours of the contest on any of the 160M, 80M, 40M, 20M, 15M and 10M amateur bands. Each prefix worked on each band is counted as a multiplier.

DX Stations outside Oceania

The aim of the contest for stations outside the Oceania Region is to contact as many amateur radio stations within Oceania as possible within the 24 hours of the contest on any of the 160M, 80M, 40M, 20M, 15M and 10M amateur bands. Each prefix worked on each band is counted as a multiplier.

There are separate 24 hour contests for phone and CW, with the phone contest running on the first full weekend in October, and the CW contest on the second full weekend in October. In each contest there are various single operator, multiple operator and short wave listener (SWL) categories.