THE GAMBIA AFRICA SIX METER DX-PEDITION

BY W7XU, N0QJM, W0SD AND W0OE

JUNE 30 ENDING JULY 6TH 2010 GMT

One thing you can be assured of is that we did beacon all the time. We moved the beam quite often beaming South America, Caribbean, North America, Europe and the Middle East.

FREQUENCY

50.103 listening as announced.

GRID SQUARE

Our grid square was IK13ql

EQUIPMENT

K3 with pre-amp, M2 1000, 28 foot boom yagi with rotor and LMR 400. Our antenna was about 20 feet high looking out over the ocean toward Europe. We had a small amount of land before the ocean to SA and NA. On HF we used dipoles, K3, and ACOM 1000.

HF OPERATION

There was concurrent HF operation on RTTY by N0QJM and W0OE while we are on 6 meters. They were on 17 and 20 meters. There was some CW and SSB operation while beaconing on six meters.

TWO METER OPERATION

There was a lot of two meter beaconing but we only worked one station who was in the Cape Verde Islands.

QSL INFORMATION

QSL VIA W7XU. DX QSL cards need $2.00 and a SAE or current IRC's. USA cards should have an SASE. These Africa trips are extremely expensive. Contributions to defray expenses can be sent with the QSL card.

SIX METER RESULTS:

         6M CW   6M PH   Total      %

    EU     734      0     734    91.4
    NA      54      3      57     7.1
    AF      10      1      11     1.5
      
         6M CW        6M PH     Total

    9A      14                    14
    9H       2                     2
    CT      11                    11
   CT3       1                     1
    CU       1                     1
    DL     117                   117
    EA      41                    41
   EA6       6                     6
   EA8       9             1      10
    EI       7                     7
    ER       2                     2
    ES       5                     5
    EU       1                     1
     F      43                    43
    FS       1                     1
     G      95                    95
    GD       3                     3
    GI       2                     2
    GJ       2                     2
    GM      13                    13
    GU       1                     1
    GW      11                    11
    HA       5                     5
    HB       7                     7
    HI       2             1       3
     I      67                    67
     K      42                    42
   KP4                     2       2
    LA       8                     8
    LX       3                     3
    LZ      10                    10
    OE       6                     6
    OH      19                    19
    OK      27                    27
    OM       2                     2
    ON      17                    17
    OZ      19                    19
    PA      50                    50
    S5      17                    17
    SM      35                    35
    SP      21                    21
    SV       5                     5
    T7       1                     1
    UR      23                    23
    VE       9                     9
    YL       1                     1
    YO       7                     7
    YU       7                     7

Here are distances of the longest QSOs.
        Miles     KM

KA9FOX WI 4804   7758  
N9IW WI   4612   7438 (Also worked from TZ6EI last year)

ON LINE LOGS THANKS TO CLUB LOG!

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THE GAMBIA DX-PEDITION PICTURES

Path to Europe

Arliss W7XU closest and Ed W0SD

Edith W0OE

Holly N0QJM

Typical scene in Banjul, The Gambia

Six meter station

THE GAMBIA AFRICA SIX METER DX-PEDITION

BY W7XU, N0QJM, W0SD AND W0OE

JUNE 30 ENDING JULY 6TH 2010 GMT

One thing you can be assured of is that we did beacon all the time. We moved the beam quite often beaming South America, Caribbean, North America, Europe and the Middle East.

FREQUENCY

50.103 listening as announced.

GRID SQUARE

Our grid square was IK13ql

EQUIPMENT

K3 with pre-amp, M2 1000, 28 foot boom yagi with rotor and LMR 400. Our antenna was about 20 feet high looking out over the ocean toward Europe. We had a small amount of land before the ocean to SA and NA. On HF we used dipoles, K3, and ACOM 1000.

HF OPERATION

There was concurrent HF operation on RTTY by N0QJM and W0OE while we are on 6 meters. They were on 17 and 20 meters. There was some CW and SSB operation while beaconing on six meters.

TWO METER OPERATION

There was a lot of two meter beaconing but we only worked one station who was in the Cape Verde Islands.

QSL INFORMATION

QSL VIA W7XU. DX QSL cards need $2.00 and a SAE or current IRC's. USA cards should have an SASE. These Africa trips are extremely expensive. Contributions to defray expenses can be sent with the QSL card.

SIX METER RESULTS:

Here are distances of the longest QSOs. Miles KM KA9FOX WI 4804 7758 N9IW WI 4612 7438 (Also worked from TZ6EI last year)

ON LINE LOGS THANKS TO CLUB LOG!

THE GAMBIA DX-PEDITION PICTURES

Path to Europe

Arliss W7XU closest and Ed W0SD

Edith W0OE

Holly N0QJM

Typical scene in Banjul, The Gambia

Six meter station