[SFDXA] Fw: 7Q7EME the end

[Randy Shirley]

-----Original Message----- 
From: rene hasper
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 12:50 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: 7Q7EME the end

Hi moonbouncers, our last update from the beach of Lake Malawi KH77ap.

Hurray! We made over 400 EME QSO's on 144 MHz and exactly 500 QSO's in
total via moonbounce on all VHF/UHF/SHF bands! No expedition ever did
that before, oops we did it last year ourselves… (offcourse excluded
duppes in log)

Friday we did dismantle the station. First thing in the morning we did
visit the local (primary) school in Ngala. There are about 1580
children and only eight badly paid teachers (56$ a month). The
children sit on the floor (the biggest class has 230 children) in
small classes and they have to walk miles two times a day. We had a
lot of pencils and ballpoints with us; they need it for sure!

Thursday, May 21st we worked 30 more inits so our total is 382 inits.
We never had expected we could work so many stations from this corner
of the world. It surprised us really!
In 9 days we worked 50 DXCC on 2 meters. Nine days more and 100 easily
could be completed? Hi hi.

Summary:
144 MHz: 412 inits in 50 DXCC
432 MHz: 27 inits
1296 MHz: 38 inits
2320 MHz: 14 inits
3400 MHz:  9 inits
Total: 500 QSO's on 5 bands.

A warm thank you to all who called us, our sponsors, Atletico
supportteam and Ngala Beach Resort.

Several did ask us what kind of equipment we are using.
Success has two sides, skills/good operating practice and well
balanced equipment including plenty spare parts (in total 205
kilograms):
TX Yaesu ft-857d with TCXO, Preamps WA2ODO
Antenna: 2 x 8 elem. I0JXX
Antenna Control System DRIACS-G3 by HB9DRI
Good EME power by ITALAB
Excellent cables, couplers, sequenser, ALC control and filters
Different custom made software for Dxpedition

And yes: Atleticoteam already has serious plans to surprise you next
year again somewhere from Africa!
After 5Z4EME, 3B8EME, C56EME, 5X1EME, 9G5EME, 6W/PE1L and now 7Q7EME
we only can say: Where do we go next?

QSL via PA3CEE
The log has been updated: see our website www.emelogger.com/malawi and
some photos were added.

73
Eltje, Hermann and Rene