DXpedition diary #5 - The last days and some statistics
Friday, March 24
Yesterday and day before K index was high and propagation was worse than other days. QSO rate went down and noise level increased. We continued to work with the previous schedule, paying attention also to 160 and 80m bands.
Today we had already 2nd power outage.
QSO number with S21ZEE passed 20 000. We bought tickets for the bus to Dhaka for Tuesday morning. 2 full days remaining.
Sunday, March 26
In the morning of the last day Dmitry/UT7UJ managed to work W8LRL on top-band, this is our only QSO with North America on 160m. Long distance QSOs on 160 and 80m bands would not be possible without beverage antennas.
Few days ago we identified light fixture which was causing constant noise on all bands.
At 23:59 local time (17:59 GMT) our license expires.
Monday, March 27
In total with both callsigns we put about 51 892 QSOs in the log, which includes 14 374 unique callsigns from 139 different DXCCs, all 40 WAZ zones and also 8548 dupes, when considering both DX-pedition callsigns as one. To put it into perspective, considering average daily QSO rate the team spent around 2 days out of the total 12 days to log dupes. Two "slot dupe leaders" have even 7 QSOs on single band/mode slot. "Total dupe leader" made 21 duplicated QSOs counting all slots of both callsigns.
Today we are taking down antennas, packing and will have farewell dinner in Cinderella hotel, which was our home for the last 2 weeks.
Tuesday morning 7:30 AM we will take the bus to Dhaka. The trip is 400 km long with two ferries included. The ride on Bangladesh roads is quite memorable even as passenger of big inter-city bus. Good that I don't have to drive. In the evening after 19:00 we should arrive to Dhaka, but due to the observed traffic jams in the capital we will go straight to the airport and wait for our flight to Istanbul 6 AM Wednesday morning.
Some more statistics and photos can be found below.
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DXCC Top 40 by QSO total: (excluding dupes) Dupe/ # DXCC QSOs Non_dupe 1 JAPAN 11069 24% 2 EUROPEAN RUSSIA 5062 24% 3 ITALY 3158 19% 4 UKRAINE 2658 24% 5 GERMANY 2647 13% 6 ASIATIC RUSSIA 1877 23% 7 POLAND 1865 17% 8 UNITED STATES 1772 6% 9 SPAIN 954 17% 10 FRANCE 900 17% 11 CZECH REPUBLIC 874 20% 12 FINLAND 691 10% 13 ENGLAND 479 11% 14 CHINA 455 23% 15 SWEDEN 447 10% 16 HUNGARY 438 17% 17 GREECE 434 22% 18 ROMANIA 381 19% 19 SLOVENIA 369 26% 20 KAZAKHSTAN 351 26% 21 BELGIUM 338 14% 22 NETHERLANDS 332 13% 23 AUSTRIA 321 15% 24 CROATIA 302 18% 25 SLOVAK REPUBLIC 295 27% 26 SOUTH KOREA 285 26% 27 NORWAY 283 15% 28 BULGARIA 273 22% 29 SWITZERLAND 273 13% 30 SERBIA 271 21% 31 LATVIA 226 9% 32 DENMARK 215 8% 33 BELARUS 213 16% 34 ISRAEL 174 21% 35 THAILAND 164 27% 36 LITHUANIA 159 16% 37 INDIA 154 19% 38 AUSTRALIA 120 10% 39 CANADA 120 12% 40 BRAZIL 116 19% |
QSOs by WAZ zones: (excluding dupes) Zone QSOs 1 10 2 2 3 540 4 751 5 599 6 4 7 2 8 46 9 46 10 2 11 121 12 3 13 61 14 7275 15 9213 16 7918 17 1244 18 861 19 242 20 1398 21 126 22 158 23 38 24 562 25 11354 26 183 27 121 28 117 29 17 30 103 31 23 32 25 33 97 34 3 35 1 36 4 37 1 38 56 39 7 40 7 |
QSO total by band:
160M 901 80M 3398 40M 9553 30M 5805 20M 8950 17M 9744 15M 9856 12M 2362 10M 1323QSO total by mode: CW 38415 SSB 8761 RTTY 4716QSO total by days: 20170314 1088 20170315 3794 20170316 3906 20170317 4859 20170318 4538 20170319 4660 20170320 4900 20170321 5925 20170322 4855 20170323 3547 20170324 3755 20170325 3191 20170326 2874Multiband QSOs: Bands Calls % 1 6825 47.48% 2 2525 17.57% 3 1566 10.89% 4 1105 7.69% 5 916 6.37% 6 699 4.86% 7 397 2.76% 8 262 1.82% 9 79 0.55% |
Mixed Phone CW RTTY 160M 80M 40M 30M 20M 17M 15M 12M 10M DXCCs Worked 139 103 130 76 55 88 109 101 106 103 99 49 19 |
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