Contest & section

Position

Score

Notes

2021 contests

CQ WW SSB
(SO, HP)

ARRL FD

All Asia CW

ARI

WPX CW
(SO, HP)

WPX SSB
(SO, HP)

ARRL SSB

CQ WW 160m

(M/2)

2020 contests

CW WW CW
(M/2 HP)

Oceania SSB

WAE CW

WAE SSB
(SO, AB, LP)

CW WW RTTY
(SO, HP)

2019 contests

CQ WW CW
(M/2 HP)

Claimed

7,513,744

Day one was good fun with decent runs. 10m opened to AS and NA, and we logged 3,500 QSOs. Day two was extremely slow. No 10m opening, 15m was open to US but no runs. SA stations as usual were focused on NA only. 20m on day two would only reach to the US west coast: we couldn't hear the East Coast, Caribbean or SA and missed many easy multipliers. Low band conditions were very good all weekend. Having lost our 160m vertical due to high winds in October (collateral damage to the tower when it collapsed), we hurriedly erected a low inverted-V instead. We sure missed the topband vertical ... and didn't even work a ZL!
Team: Holger ZL3IO, Xenia ZL4YL, Mike ZL3MY, Wes ZL3TE, Ark EI9KC and Gary ZL2iFB. Worked very well together.
Eqpt: K3 + KPA500 and Flexx6600-M + RF-kit amp; 160 m inverted vee;  80m 4 square; 40m 2L + 2L; 20m 3L + 3L; 15m 5L + 3L; 10 m 4L.

CQ WW SSB
(M/2 HP)

Claimed

2,589,984

Another youth team effort in a big contest. Most ops qualify as rookies, some doing their first real contest ever. All managed a steady flow of calls into the log. From the training/learning perspective it was probably an advantage to not have massive pile ups. While conditions were a challenge, 10 & 15m gave nice surprises, although not to the Caribbean or SA. On 10m we got 1 x JA, 1 x XE, 2 x KH6s, 2 x ZLs and the rest were USA (from West coast into Texas). We made good use of the youngsters by progressing antenna work. A storm damaged our 160m vertical (crank up tower) two weeks before and the remnants had to be removed. We will replace it with a mast with beams dedicated to SA and EU LP. Due to endless maintenance hassles with rotators in our windswept location, we are planning fixed beams for certain directions. Marek OK1MV was of tremendous help, climbing the towers. We had fun and will be back soon.

CQ WPX SSB
(MS HP)

Claimed ~29^th world

2,655,675

Youth team: Jaiden ZL4WW (age 15) with Xenia ZL4YL and Alice ZL2EM (both 17) ... with some guidance from ZL3IO (ancient)

ARRL DX SSB
(SO LP)

2^nd ZL

Claim 302,841

Final 283.140

ZL4YL single-op, beaten by ZM1A.  Lost 6.4% in checking.

Russian DX
(SO LP)

Claimed ~23^rd world

Claim 370,944

Final 295,097

Xenia ZL4YL.  Lost 20% in checking - 10% less than last year.

ARRL DX CW
(multi-two)

Claimed ~26^th world?  Not listed in the results

1,686,360

Team: Holger ZL3IO, Brad WP2B and Xenia ZL4YL. Holger did most of the operating while the others were living it up at the Napier Art Deco 0festival. QRO amp released the smoke so mostly we used 300 to 400W from the trusty KPA500.

2018 contests

CQ WW DX CW
(M/2 HP)

1^st ZL
3^rd Oceania
26^th world

7,594,280

Oustanding effort by an excellent team. High QRN made it hard going for us on the low bands though. 15m was worse than normal and 10m barely flickered open.  Ops: Chris DL1MGB, Gary ZL2IFB, Mike ZL2MY, Jackie ZL3CW, Wes ZL3TE, Xenia ZL4YL & Holger ZL3IO  Certificate

CQ WW DX SSB
(SO HP ALL)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania
22^nd world

2,659,480

Marko OH6DO aka N5ZO made the long trip to ZL especially for this guest-op entry, making ~2,800 QSOs with over 43 hours in the chair.  Certificate

CQ WPX CW
(SA HP)

-

1,562

ZL3IO checklog

CQ WPX SSB
(SA HP)

1^st ZL
1^st Oceania
14^th world

6,373,404

ZL3IO single-op, excellent result!

Russian DX
(MOST)

1^st ZL
1^st Oceania
57^th world

Claim 17,568
Final 12,192

Xenia ZL4YL + Holger ZL3IO.  Lost a disappointing 30% in checking.  Certificate.

ARRL DX SSB
(single-op)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

306,588

ZL4YL single-handedly showed the rest of us how to do it!  Certificate

ARRL DX CW
(MS HP)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

1,493,838

ZL3IO + ZL4YL  Certificate

2017 contests

CQ WW DX CW
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
3^rd Oceania
25^th world

8,264,662

Great result!  Lost 6.2% of our claimed score in checking though.

CQ WW DX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
5^th Oceania
50^th world

2,629,781

Full team entry this year. Lost more than 10% in checking: logging accuracy needs more effort

CQ WPX CW
(SOA AB LP)

1^st ZL
1^st Oceania
40^th world

1,228,565
ZL record

ZL3IO single-op, great result!

CQ WPX SSB
(SO AB LP)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania
8^th world

2,029,773

ZL3IO single-op

CQ 160
(SOA HP)

1^st ZL
4^th Oceania
480^th world

47,232
ZL record

Highly placed in Oceania but low in world terms: topband is tough down here in the Pacific

9A CW
(SOA LP)

?

9,000

ZL3IO single-op

ARRL 10m
(SOA)

?

56,808

ZL3IO single-op

WAG
(SO HP CW)

1^st ZL

5,940

ZL3IO single-op

WAE SSB
(SO AB HP)

1^st ZL
43^rd world

9,108

ZL3IO single-op

WAE CW
(multi-single)

1^st ZL
8^th world

77,401

ZL3IO + ZL4YL

All Asia DX CW
(SOA HP)

1^st ZL

31,787

ZL3IO single-op

JIDX CW
(SOAP HP)

2^nd ZL

44,672

ZL3IO single-op, beaten by ZM2B

ARRL DX SSB
(SOA HP)

3^rd ZL
6^th Oceania

24,948

ZL3IO single-op

ARRL DX CW
(M/S HP)

1^st ZL
1^st Oceania
11^th world

1,599,312

Team: DL1SVA, ZL4YY, ZL2iFB, ZL4YL, ZL3IO  Certificate

RAEM
(SOA HP)

1^st ZL
85^th world

26,199

ZL3IO single-op

2016 contests

CQ WW DX CW
(multi-single)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania
31^st world

5,940,882

First full club entry from new QTH

CQ WW DX SSB
(SO AB HP)

1^st ZL
3^rd Oceania
15^th world

4,127,280
ZL record

ZL3IO had fun testing the station prior to the club entering the CW leg - and what a star!

BERU
(SOAB HP 12 hours)

1^st ZL

2,980

ZL3IO single-op

CQ WPX SSB
(SOAB HP)

1^st ZL
1^st Oceania
58^th world

4,207,455

ZL3IO single-op, great result

RUDX
(SOAB HP mix)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

621,340

ZL3IO single-op

CQ WPX CW
(SOAB LP)

1^st ZL
1^st Oceania
42^nd world

2,224,454

ZL3IO single-op, great result

All Asia DX CW
(SO 15m HP)

1^st ZL

23,904

ZL3IO single-op

WAE CW
(SO HP)

2^nd ZL
2^nd Oceania
66^th world

362,046

ZL3IO single-op

All Asia DX SSB
(SO HP)

2^nd ZL

75,096

ZL3IO single-op, beaten by ZM1A

WAE SSB
(SO LP)

1^st ZL
1^st Oceania
21^st world

192,060

ZL3IO single-op, fantastic!

WAG
(SO AB HP mix)

1^st ZL
1^st Oceania
58^th world

61,047

ZL3IO single-op, great!

ARRL DX CW
(SO AB LP)

1^st ZL
1^st Oceania

1,359,585
ZL record

ZL3IO single-op barefoot. star performance

ARRL DX SSB
(SO AB HP)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

1,468,125

ZL3IO single-op  Certificate

2015 contests

ARRL DX SSB
(M/S HP)

1^st ZL
1^st Oceania

374,085

ZL2YL + ZL3IO  Certificate

2014 contests

CQ WW DX CW
(multi-single)

2^nd ZL
3^rd Oceania
47^th world

6,781,860

ZL3IO and DJ7TO exceeded the old ZL record ... but so did ZM1A, and they were even more excessive!

WAE CW
(SO HP)

1^st ZL
106^th world

94,736

ZL3IO single-op

ARRL DX CW
(M/2 HP)

1^st ZL
8^th world

3,492,693
ZL record

ZM90DX special event call celebrating 90 years since first ZL-UK QSO, operated by ZL3IO, ZL3TE and ZL2iFB

ARRL DX SSB
(SO HP)

1^st ZL
6^th Oceania

200,166

ZL3IO single-op. World 2^nd golden log with zero deductions.  Certificate

2013 contests

CQ WW DX CW
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

13,178,900
ZL record

A fabulous effort.  Narrowly beaten again by KH6LC, but that’s another ZL record in the bag.

CQ WW DX SSB
(multi-multi)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania
34^th world

7,136,512

10m was hot, mostly, but condx kept dropping out on us.  80m was pathetic!

WPX CW
(multi-single)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania
40^th world

3,861,900

Team: ZL2AL, ZL2ST, ZL2MY, ZL2iFB

2012 contests

CQ WW DX CW
(multi-multi)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

15,224,510
ZL record

Narrowly beaten in Oceania by KH6LC but we’re happy with another ZL record

CQ WW DX SSB
(multi-multi)

1^st Oceania

11,130,531
ZL record

Write-up  Set the ZL record with our first M/M entry!

Oceania DX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL

8,925,696

Write-up  Team: ZL2AL, ZL2ST, ZL3IO, ZL2CC, ZL2MY, ZL2WG, ZL2iFB

2011 contests

CQ WW DX CW
(multi-two)

2^nd ZL
4^th Oceania

8,930,310

Lots of runs, lots of fun.  Trouble with the 10m antenna but the rigs, amps and DXcluster all worked.  Despite our good score, we were soundly beaten by our friends at ZM1A. Write-up.

CQ WW DX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania 

8,872,816
ZL record

Write-up. 6,572 QSOs and 488 mults (132 zones + 356 countries). Soundly beaten in Oceania by AH0BT’s 11 million but we beat VI6NC, KH7CW and other worthy opponents. Extended our ZL record once again!

Oceania DX CW
(multi-two)

2^nd ZL

4,495,132

Increased once more on the previous year’s winning score with M/2. Write-up. Soundly beaten by ZM1A’s 7 million.

Oceania DX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL

11,550,280
ZL record

Fabulous effort! Write-up. Beaten in Oceania by even bigger scores from VK and T32C.

2010 contests

CQ WW DX CW
(multi-single)

2^nd ZL

3,501,680

3,405 QSOs. 117 zones + 247 countries = 364 mults. Write-up.

CQ WW DX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL

5,601,050
ZL record

4,680 QSOs.  466 mults. Beat our own record! Write-up.

Oceania DX CW
(multi-single)

1^st Oceania

3,624,212
ZL record

1,400 QSOs and 845 mults meant a substantial increase on 2009 and another win! Write-up.

Oceania DX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

3,294,719

1,500 QSOs and 700 mults was enough to win ZL [being the only M/2 ZL entrant!] but well short of VK4KW’s Oceania-winning score of 7m points. Write-up.

2009 Contests

CQ WW DX CW
(multi-two)

2^nd ZL
4^th Oceania

2,899,740

3,250 QSOs. 371 mults. Lost a lot in checking.  Beaten by ZM1A.

CQ WW DX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
3^rd Oceania

3,742,977
ZL record

3,504 QSOs. 124 zones + 287 DXCCs = 411 mults.

Oceania DX CW
(multi-single)

1^st Oceania

2,305,064

We won Oceania! Fantastic effort! Write-up.

2008 contests

CQ WW DX CW
(multi-single)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

1,273,767

HF conditions were hard going but LF was hot.

CQ WW DX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
3^rd Oceania

2,374,515

Write-up.

CQ WPX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania
20^th world

4,376,460

Despite a significant increase on our previous year’s score with nearly twice as many QSOs (2,112 QSOs and  660 mults), this “1^st in ZL and 2^nd Oceania” thing is getting boooring! We’ll be gunning for 1^st  Oceania from now on! 

CQ WPX CW
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania
19^th world

2,024,330

Team: ZL2LA, ZL2ST, ZL2LF, ZL2FAR

2007 contests

CQ WW DX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

2,402,167

Pipped to the post in Oceania once again.  We’ll just have to try harder in 2008 ...

CQ WPX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

1,686,830

Great weekend! Immensely satisfying despite the SFI of just 69 and letting the smoke out of an SB220 amp’s HT transformer. 1106 QSOs, 470 mults 

2006 contests

CQ WW DX SSB
(multi-two)

1^st ZL
2^nd Oceania

2,291,883

This was the club’s inaugural event as ZM2M using wire dipoles and two beams. Our aims were to have fun, prove the site and radio systems and achieve a respectable score. 3 out of 3! We only made one topband QSO this year so there is definitely room for improvement there. 2,546 QSOs, 115 zones and 234 DXCCs = 394 mults. Watch this space ...