Infos , Comments and Thanks

This expedition is now over, we had great fun and learned a lot again.
The weather didn't help us with strong winds and heavy rain.
We also had to shorten by two days our operations due to boat availability.

The score made with our marginal setup looks good, 43 stations contacted and 21 heard.
For those last ones, trust us, we would have been more than pleased to have you on the 'contacted' status, and we want to thank you very much for your patience.

We definitely feel that dual polar receive, thus making the setup quite complex, is key. We've seen quite often 'quick' switch of polarization and also a couple of stations on H and V at the same time.

We are also fully convinced that ERP is a must, when we lost 1/2 SSPA going from >500w to 300w the QSOs became to be by far more difficult.

Now this Expe is over and we (F1BCS a F1HDI) want to share with you a special thank for our 'main back-office' dream team F1OAT,F5DJL and F6BIA. Without them, this Expedition would not have been possible. We hope to have them 'in operation' sometimes!.

We also want to thank you all for the endless fun we were and are sharing for EME.

What would be the next step ? who knows , stay tuned ...
Also we shouldconsider looking for some EME sponsors in the future if we wish to stick with 2 EME Expediton/year ...


RRR 73
J79DI