The end of operation from ZA

thunderstormUnfortunatly on Saturday/Sunday night we had very long thunderstorm and after that electricity was cut off for 15 hours. It was very unpleasent accident for us as we planned more activity on low bands.

Never the less we enjoyed our stay, our QTH and cooperation from amateur society all over the world.

Thank you friends. We do hope to hear you from our next Dxpedition!

Our suggestions

To give a chance to small pistols for ATNO we suggest:

1. Do not call many times on the same band. Repeated QSO is waste of time and less chance to other stations to make QSO.

2. Do not give your name, QTH, equipment and weather description. It is waste of time and less chance for others to make QSO.

3. Do not call from Europe when operator suggests certain areas he wishes to work.

4. Do not insist suggesting operator to QSY to other band or mode. He knows what he is doing and we have our goals.

Spot statistic :)

Top spots / Statistics (dxwatch)

top spotted stations for last 48 hours (as www.dxwatch.com shows):

DX spots 160m 80m 40m 30m 20m 17m 15m 12m 10m
ZA/ZA1P 587 36 85 168 67 93 129 9
A5A 451 6 11 70 80 88 53 104 32 7
TO5FP 429 1 74 77 174 88 15
E51Q 285 23 32 7 66 55 36 27 23 16
W6H 148 35 6 95 12
II8IHBC 130 4 46 5 54 14 5 2
OJ0JR 110 13 14 30 53
R75PKZ 97 21 17 11 43 3 2
IZ5GST/4 89 58 1 30
II2IAOG 87 3 50 29 5
VP6AH 82 81 1
HB0/SP2FOV 80 30 50
W6T 68 20 48
SV5/HB9OAU 67 58 8 1
SV8/IZ4JMA 66 12 9 43 2
N4CD 65 14 15 36
W6B 63 3 15 4 29 7 5
W6P 63 4 29 2 27 1
RI1AND 61 7 33 10 11
YU1CA/P 59 33 26

Operating conditions

Mother Nature does not favour us. Once or twice a day we have sunderstorms, sometimes during rainfall electrity supply is cut off. So, be patient sometimes please. Today five persons spent almost all day on antenna work with second spiderbeam, phased verticals for 80m and inverted L for 160m.
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