I'm back from Dassen Island after a great weekend of penguins, tortoises, seabirds and cw! I started slightly later than expected at 1722 UTC on 16 August and operated until 1330 UTC on 18 August. Propagation was somewhat disappointing, especially to North America, but I nevertheless managed 406 contacts, almost all on CW. I've put a couple of pictures on my web site www.qsl.net/zs1an - more to follow when I have a moment.
The relevant "numbers" are: IOTA AF-064, ARLHS SAF-042 and World Lighthouse Award LH-0423. This was my first experience of DXpedition operating after having had my license for exactly one year and I would like to thank all the operators who waitied patiently while I struggled to identify callsigns in the pileups, and who corrected me when I made mistakes. My thanks to you all and my appologies to those of you who did not get through. The courtesy of Japanese operators was especially noteworthy. While working pileups to Japan, when I started sending all the stations would stop transmitting and wait until I had finished my QSO before calling again. That's vy FB operating! One of the mistakes I made, especially on the first day, was not to give my call sign often enough. So if you contacted an unknown DX station on 21026 or 14026 KHz between 1720 and 2000 UTC on 16 August, it was probably me! If you send me an email with the time and frequency I will check whether you are in my log. I will be designing my QSL card this weekend, with all the information required for IOTA, ARLHS and WLA awards. I expect to have the card printed by the end of next week and will start replying to QSLs immediately therafter. Please QSL direct to: PO Box 350 Newlands 7725 South Africa If you would like a direct response then please enclose an IRC or green stamp. All other replies will be via the bureau. If you are a FISTS member and your QSL card (with your FISTS membership number) reaches me before the end of September then I will QSL via the FISTS bureau at no charge. I intend to send a single parcel of cards to the FISTS bureau in early October. My FISTS number is 8921. Unfortunately I don't have envelopes at the FISTS bureau so please don't send your card to me by this route. Once again thanks to you all and I'll try to arrange some more island expeditions. Try it, it's addictive! vy 73 de Andrew ZS1AN ------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems, etc DX-NEWS http://njdxa.org/dx-news DX-CHAT: http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX NEWS items only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives http://www.mail-archive.com/dx-news%40pro-usa.net -------------------------------------------------------
