The 2023 Oceania DX Contest was held on the weekend just passed, Saturday 7th October 2023 from 0600 UTC, to 0600 UTC on Sunday 8th October 2023.

I entered into the Single Op All Bands Low power category. I ran the Yaesu FTdx101MP and 100 watts during the contest. My antennas were the 5-element tri-band yagi @ 50 feet and the 40m rotatable dipole @ 55 feet.

I made 785 QSOs with a claimed score of 859,500 points.

The majority of my QSOs were on the 20m band (385), followed by 10m (196), and then 15m (125).

I worked a total of 61 different DXCC entities during the contest:

• Alaska
• Argentina
• Asiatic Russia
• Australia
• Austria
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Canada
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Corsica
• Costa Rica
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• England
• European Russia
• Federal Republic of Germany
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• Greece
• Hawaii
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• India
• Indonesia
• Ireland
• Isle of Man
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Madeira Islands
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
• Northern Ireland
• Norway
• Oman
• Philippines
• Poland
• Puerto Rico
• Republic of Korea
• Scotland
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United States
• Wales
• West Malaysia

The map below shows my contacts around the world during the contest.

I went to bed at a respectable time on Saturday night, about 11.30 p.m., and didn’t get back into the shack until about 8.30 a.m. on Sunday morning.

I was down about 200 QSOs from last year when I won the category. Nonetheless, I had a lot of fun again this year and I would like to thank everyone who called me, and thank you to the organisers of this great Contest.