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5X8C QRT 17/02/2013 1003z

More than 81000 QSO in the log. Thanks to everybody .

2 more ops now on site

Frank F4AJQ and John F5VHQ have joined the team. The will now stay with us until the end.

We hope the fresh blood will help us to keep good pileups.

High bands are a bit difficult with not excellent conditions. We do not achieve to run long pileups with NA and almost all EU should already be in the log. We continue our efforts with pacific and asia just after our SR.

Low bands are not easy too but the new beverage has really changed our life for EU and NA and we really thing not missing many qso now. The first days were very frustrating by earing people calling and not been able to pick the call signs.

We are just over 65 000 qso now.

For the team, Seb F5UFX

Look at the stations

digi mods

We had to adapt our strategy for digi mods as this year we only have one station when the previous year we had two. In order to give as many chance as possible to everyone on all bands we try to use all openings.
Today has been a very good day for digi mods with the 12 meters open all the day.
We started the day with more than 50 stations from JA and Asia, then the propagation turns to Europe allowing around 500 qsos. We have then finished the day with NA.
We have seen this strategie usefull and giving a qso for all parts of the world.
 It neeeds ops that knows propagation, a good experience in dxpedition, and a good skill on digi mods !

F5EOT, F5NHJ, F8BJI, DL1YFF

Contact with administration

This afternoon we have been very happy to be visited by a member of the Uganda Communication Commission.

We were in contact with them since months for the license process. This eyesball qso gives us the opportunity to exchange about hamradio in Uganda.

We show the stations, the antennas, the team and explain our motivations, hamradio.

News from 10/02/2013

Yesterday , we have build a second 40m antenna : a GP just above the Victoria Lake.
It isn't far away from the other 40m antenna because we have no more coax cable. That's why we share the coax with the 160m GP.
F5VHQ, who's coming next wednesday will bring us 140m more cable (TNX F5LPY and F6DVH). With this new antenna , we could have 2 stations on the same time on 40mCette nouvelle antenne permet donc d'avoir (CW/SSB or CW/RTTY or SSB/RTTY). The RX beverage to ASIA was build again but it's not so good as it should be. It's better from some EU but no more gain for JA.
We 're still waiting for the authorization to put again the EU/NA beverage in the neighbourhood.
We tried a Flag Pole too but no good. With this hard conditions on the Top band, where 95% of QSO were done using the TX vertical Antenna (S9 Noise), we made 70 JA happy in 2 nights (2 X 45 minutes openings) We'll do this till the end of the expedition. The RTTY station is running in the WPX contest . The log will be uploaded after the end of the contest. Today NH6T visit us with his new 5X1C callsign . He will live here for the next years.
The upper bands are closed very early and open not before our Sunrise. With these conditions , it's very difficult to have all the 6 stations on the aire without disturbing the others on same band.

30000 QSO

We have now more than 30000 QSO in more than 150 DXCC in the log.

Every QSO is confirmed via LoTW within a day.

If you could not find your QSO AFTER 24 hours in Clublog  , please send a e-mail to the QSL MANAGER.

We have a lot of QRN on the low bands but we're trying to improve our RX.

20 000 qsos !

Now more than 20000 qsos are in the log. Everything is till going well.

You could now find some pictures on this website.

About the online log, we stop now the real time upload to Clublog. The reason is that our network is not perfect and people are just doubling, tripling.... until they appears in the log ! Believes you ears, not your internet browser !

Even with very high temperature today we stay all the afternoon improving the receiving system for low bands. We keep fingers crossed to have a better reception that night. Anyway last night we've put the first JA in the log on 160. We will keep the effort until the last day.

Today all bands are open and we ve made many contacts on 10m. Hope the propagation will still improve.

Thank you all for calling us.

On the air

As you've heard, all stations are on the air. Everything is going well. We have a lot's of place and all antennas are installed.

After the first night already 160qsos are in the log on 160m, we will try to improve the receiving sytem as our beverages are very noisy.

Real time online log we continue working as long as the internet connexion stay up !

Conditions on all bands are a bit difficult and we hope it will improve. Anyway everyone is in a good spirit and very motivated.

To be followed...

73's