The XZ1N team returned on November 27th and a detailed analysis of the logs
in now underway. Below is a "first pass" look at the combined .bin files of
the four operating positions.
Band CW SSB RTTY TOTALS
160 1,222 0 0 1,222
80 2,377 559 7 2,943
40 3,876 401 11 4,288
30 2,113 0 0 2,113
20 1,661 3,426 304 5,391
17 443 699 0 1,142
15 897 4,531 317 5,745
12 19 103 0 122
10 4 217 0 221
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TOTALS 12,612 9,936 639 23,187
As promised, this operation did its best to concentrate on North America
and made a special effort on the low bands. Overall we are pleased with
these totals considering that this is still the bottom of the current
sunspot cycle and Myanmar is a very long haul from North America. The
majority of contacts were with European (47%) and Japanese (32%) stations,
with North American (15%) stations being worked only during the brief
windows available to us. Below is a brief summary of the operators and
antennas for each band.
160-METERS: WA6CDR was the main Top Band op with help from N6BT. In spite
of four different receiving antennas, openings to North America (those
times in which we could both hear and be heard) were very brief (minutes at
a time) and only 25 ops from zones 3, 4 and 5 made it through. Intermittent
local noise that covered the whole band was a real problem and stations had
to be worked inbetween these bursts. Robin put forth an almost super-human
effort on this band with 1,222 QSOs! WA6CDR was the single band, single op
XZ1N entry in CQ WW CW.
80-METERS: Tom, N6BT on CW and Rich, AB6ZV on SSB worked every possible
opening to North America. They used a Force-12 EF-180B linear loaded
rotatable dipole at above 100 feet. For the few days that Vince, K5VT was
with us he was also active on this band. 360 QSOs with North America are in
the log. N6BT was the single band, single op XZ1N entry in CQ WW CW.
40 and 30-METERS: For CW John, K7WP, Jack, WA7LNW, Tom, N6BT and Warren,
K7WX maximized sunrise/sunset terminator openings. For 40-meter SSB Rich,
AB6ZV did an outstanding job of dodging broadcast stations while runnimg a
200 KHz split. 1,517 North American stations were worked. A Force-12 EF-240
2 element 40-meter monoband yagi and a Force-12 EF-230 2 element 30-meter
monoband yagi, both above 100 feet were used. K7WP was the single band,
single op 40-meter XZ1N entry in CQ WW CW.
20-METERS: For CW John, K7WP, Jack, WA7LNW and Warren, K7WX also maximized
sunrise/sunset terminator openings. For SSB, Sally, KA5AYR, Millie, WY7K,
Jessica, N7ZRD and Dan, N7WTU kept things moving on this band. Prior to
heading out for C21BH, Martti, OH2BH was also active. Millie, WY7K ran the
best and longest 20-meter opening to North America the day before our
departure. One operating position had two Force-12 monoband yagis fed in
phase and another used a Force-12 C-3 5-band trapless yagi, all above 100
feet. WA7LNW was the single band, single op XZ1N entry in CQ WW CW.
17, 15, 12 and 10-METERS: Mostly EU and JA. On SSB Sally, KA5AYR, Millie,
WY7K, Jessica, N7ZRD and Dan, N7WTU did an outstanding job with over 7,000
QSOs. These bands were handled with two Force-12 C-3 5-band trapless yagis,
all above 100 feet. WY7K was the single band, single op XZ1N entry in CQ WW
CW for 15-meters.
There were three YL SSB ops for XZ1N, one of which (Jessica, N7ZRD) is
currently only 15-years old and on her second major operation! Now that's a
real start in DX'ing!
QSLs go to W1XT. Detailed info can be found at the DXpedition web site:
http://www.getnet.com/~kf7ay/myanmar.html
One final observation. Every member of the DXpedition team was very
impressed with the performance of the Force-12 antennas we used. Each of us
will probably use nothing else for our own stations from now on. When
opeings were present, on most bands we were reported to be loud. This is
simply amazing, given the location of zone 26 and the recent history of
zero sunspots. Expect to hear more about these antennas from future
DXpeditions.
All comments regarding this operation are welcome. Many thanks to everyone
who worked XZ1N!
73 de Warren/K7WX
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K7WX in Arizona (ex-KF7AY)
Warren Hill
XZ1N (Myanmar DXpedition) Web Site
http://www.getnet.com/~kf7ay/myanmar.html (English)
http://www.getnet.com/~kf7ay/ea.html (espanol)
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