[SADXA] VP8PJ

Gene K5GS k5gs at arrl.net
Fri Jun 19 10:08:40 EDT 2020


Thanks for the time last night,  here is some additional info.

- This morning our equipment container is just north of Lima Peru, due 
in Manzanillo, Mexico on 24 June, where it will transfer to another ship 
destined for Oakland, Calif, ETA 30 June. After clearing Customs it will 
be trucked to Union City then to Los Altos Hills, several of us will 
unpack and distribute the shipment. All equipment that was in the 
weather will be washed and prepared for storage.

-  On 60 meters we operated on 5.357 mhz,  in normal mode, not F/H.
-  1,559  60m QSOs
-  vertical antenna
-  first QSO Feb 25, last QSO March 5
-  since it doesn't count for DXCC we accommodated the 60m crowd, it was 
not in the operator rotation
-  DXpeditions live and die by rates, 60 is a low rate band
-  Total FT8 QSOs, all bands 27,152, or 32.4% of the total, 60 was 1.9% 
of the total

- Update this morning from QSL Manager Tim M0URX
About 5 emails from USA saying that letters have not arrived yet. I have 
emailed them all to ask to give it till the end of June and contact me 
then for a re posting. Reports of mail still arriving daily, so it is 
clear that some postal services in some areas are struggling with 
Covid-19 restrictions. I would still expect about 50 letters to go 
missing in the post out of the total mailed, so pretty good delivery 
rate so far.

- Only 798 Not-in-Log / busted call requests for 83,782 QSOs. For this 
many QSOs normal expectation would be twice that number

- The EAntenna product line is now carried by DX Engineering

Cheers,
GS K5GS



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