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Bhutan DXpedition Update: May 29, 2012

May 29, 2012, from A5A Bhutan DXpedition

Greetings from Bhutan. A couple notes to report. The past few days have been full of official meetings for Zorro and his international survey team (Harvard, Waseda, The University of Tokyo, and SEISA) with the Bhutan Government officials. The Ministry of Education, Health, Economics, and even Bhutan's Football (soccer) The team has been on the calendar discussing future needs. KL2A and ZL1GO were in on the action as well entertaining 20+ university students in the A5A shack for a live demonstration of the radio and introducing (more politely, urging) the very exciting reality that some in the room would become charter members of the future Royal Thimphu College Radio Club. We called CQ and answered a CQ by M0REX. The FGC is delighted to donate the radio and equipment including ordering an installation of a new first radio tower for the club. The ceremony is forthcoming.

The radio condx are very good to the needed areas and we are working hard to be available on those paths. We have seen long openings in our darkness on the high bands, it is quite exciting. We have been running the 6m beacon most of the day and are working on the lower bands now as well. Club Log is underway as JJ1LIB has departed back to Japan and will officiate these duties daily. Please keep your comments coming, follow us on Twitter for live updates, and thank you for your support! We are honored to add one more to your rankings.

73 A5A Team Bhutan2012.com

A5A Bhutan DXPEDITION + WPX CW 2012

A5A - Bhutan 2012 - Dxpedition by The FGC DX Group, Foundation for Global Children

Want to know when 7O6T has worked your region per band? Look here...

Chasing 7O6T?  Want to know when they have actually worked your region?  Read this...


Excerpt from a post sent to Spokane DX Associations Mail group on May 4, 2012

Gentlemen,

17m indeed is their strongest band (below in blue) with 20 and 15 trailing. 

NA	0	65	292	155	2697	3032	2048	727	170	9186

(source: www.yemen2012.com)

Note that overall, they are excelling on 17m with more Q's and countries than any other band/mode:

DXCC by Band/Mode breakdown   

Band	CW	PH	RTTY	Total
160	43	0	0	43
80	52	18	0	52
40	61	58	0	71
30	58	0	0	58
20	99	89	1	110
17	103	122	0	127
15	99	116	0	121
12	99	101	0	115
10	82	102	0	108
Totals	124	143	1	151

Band/Mode breakdown

Band	CW	PH	RTTY	Total
160	382	0	0	382
80	855	43	0	898
40	730	553	0	1283
30	1068	0	0	1068
20	5181	2880	1	8062
17	5570	5986	0	11556
15	4005	5689	0	9694
12	4185	3920	0	8105
10	1961	2573	0	4534
Totals	23937	21644	1	45582

Have you tried their Map Propagation Feature? 

Here is the best link for tinkering with the data:
http://www.clublog.org/charts/?c=7O6T&a=gc&embed=1#map 

You can ask it: "What time are they working Zone 3 on any particular band?"

1.  Click the map on the Zone 3 area
2.  Click the bar on the graph representing the band you are interested in (try 17m)
3.  The Graph resets, and now you see 17m highlighted in Orange. 

Note: 434 Q's in Zone 3 on 17m (at time of writing)
Note: The graph depicts the times of these Q's.  Majority worked at 03z and 16z

40m shows 3 Q's so far in Zone 3 at 01 and 02 zulu timeframe.

Good luck in the pile ups!


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7O6T Yemen Dxpedition Record Breaking Day 1 ??

Reference:  http://www.yemen2012.com/log.php

May 02, 2012

To the fans of DXpeditions, I present a few observations.  I am not certain that Clublog keeps track of where you are and when regarding statistical results, therefore I am grabbing the 24 hour marker now before the next update occurs. As you can see this is Day 1, within approx 24 hours of the starting bell.

Operating Time	Number of QSOs
First QSO: 2012-04-30 21:00:54 Last QSO: 2012-05-01 21:07:42	Total QSOs: 17269 Unique Calls: 7112

This may be a Day-1 24 hour record for a DXpedition.  Is this a correct assumption?  If not, where can we get the data? Please chime in on the subject.\

The Leaderboard: 

Looks like 2 North American Stations made it in the top Leaderboard standings: W4QN, N4CC, K4SV, and N4NN, .  Congrats to those guys!

Note that many of these guys are regulars on other DXpedition Leaderboards.  Fairly consistant bunch going after the available band slots.  Possibly expert Pile-Up breakers as well?  

These would be RA4LW, G4PWA, A61BK and CA, F5OHS, OK2PAY,  IT9FGA, OZ1LXJ, OM3LK, S58N,  DL7CM, among others...

7O6T

Leading Band/Slot Stations

1	RA4LW	13	21	9H1SP	11	41	S52QM	10	61	RU3OW	9	81	OM3PC	9
2	IV3RAV	13	22	W4QN	11	42	F5OHS	10	62	HA1DAE	9	82	DL4MCF	9
3	IV3HYD	13	23	N4CC	11	43	IK2YCW	10	63	RZ6LY	9	83	UT7UW	9
4	G4PWA	12	24	ON7GB	11	44	IK8HJC	10	64	IZ8EFB	9	84	N4NN	9
5	CT1EEB	12	25	UA4CR	10	45	ON4ATW	10	65	I3ZNG	9	85	UA3QNS	9
6	EA3BKI	12	26	OM5MF	10	46	IT9MRZ	10	66	IZ5DKJ	9	86	SM4OTI	9
7	YO9HP	12	27	UA4HBW	10	47	I5NPH	10	67	IZ8GGE	9	87	EA1KE	9
8	A61BK	11	28	R6AF	10	48	I1APQ	10	68	I3BUI	9	88	EA5RM	9
9	5B4AHJ	11	29	OK1MP	10	49	IZ8ETW	10	69	EA3JL	9	89	DL8QS	9
10	S50A	11	30	DL2MWB	10	50	CT1APE	10	70	UA9TF	9	90	SP5WA	9
11	A65CA	11	31	RZ3AM	10	51	EA1KY	10	71	R3OK	9	91	HA8BE	9
12	OK2PAY	11	32	OE3GCU	10	52	EA5KV	10	72	RW4LK	9	92	ON4WW	9
13	US4EX	11	33	IK5MEJ	10	53	IT9TJH	10	73	OE6MDF	9	93	LZ2WO	9
14	OZ1LXJ	11	34	DL5MEV	10	54	K4SV	9	74	SM3NRY	9	94	RU3QR	9
15	F6GCP	11	35	S52OT	10	55	SP3DOI	9	75	YU1FW	9	95	SP9AQF	9
16	HA7TM	11	36	RZ3QZ	10	56	IZ8FWN	9	76	UA3KW	9	96	SV2DCD	9
17	DL7CM	11	37	SV1PL	10	57	RL3AA	9	77	OK1EK	9	97	RA3QSY	9
18	OM5RW	11	38	SP9QMP	10	58	RZ3DJ	9	78	OM3LK	9	98	IT9FGA	9
19	EA8AK	11	39	US6EX	10	59	IZ3KIF	9	79	HA7RY	9	99	IK4DRY	9
20	CT1ILT	11	40	UR0MC	10	60	UA4LY	9	80	S58N	9	100	SV8JE	9

7O6T Statistics at 24 hours, Day 1:

Operating Time	Number of QSOs
First QSO: 2012-04-30 21:00:54 Last QSO: 2012-05-01 21:07:42	Total QSOs: 17269 Unique Calls: 7112
Band/Mode breakdown Band PH CW Total 80 36 453 489 40 71 57 128 30 0 314 314 20 1318 2758 4076 17 2347 3047 5394 15 1468 552 2020 12 1685 2326 4011 10 837 0 837 Totals 7762 9507 17269	DXCC by Band/Mode breakdown Band PH CW Total 80 17 42 42 40 22 23 35 30 0 42 42 20 74 86 98 17 89 86 101 15 77 38 83 12 75 83 90 10 67 0 67 Totals 113 104 123
Daily QSOs (last 30 active) Date Total 01-05-2012 15582 30-04-2012 1687 Totals 17269
Multiband QSOs Band Total 8 13 7 37 6 105 5 292 4 550 3 1026 2 1544 1 3545 Totals 7112	Breakdown by Continent Continent Total Africa 143 Asia 1285 Europe 12858 North America 2790 Oceania 62 South America 131 Totals 17269
Continent By Mode Band PH CW Total AF 111 32 143 AN 0 0 0 AS 456 829 1285 EU 5871 6987 12858 NA 1206 1584 2790 OC 29 33 62 SA 89 42 131 Totals 7762 9507 17269
Continent By Band Band 80 40 30 20 17 15 12 10 Total AF 2 3 2 17 14 7 25 73 143 AN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AS 19 13 12 198 489 96 434 24 1285 EU 412 87 173 3177 3683 1421 3265 640 12858 NA 56 21 125 641 1173 461 258 55 2790 OC 0 0 1 9 18 17 13 4 62 SA 0 4 1 34 17 18 16 41 131

• NA at 22% of total Q's in the 1st 24 hours.
• NA worked 7O6T 56 times on 160, and 55 times on 10m
• NA on 17m: 42% of total NA Q's have been on 17m so far.
• Add on if you wish...

7O6T Map Feature

This map feature is great.  Check it out here: http://www.yemen2012.com/log.php  (click map)

Propagation to 7O6T from CQ Zone: 3

10 m: 0 QSOs

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

12 m: 0 QSOs

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

15 m: 15 QSOs

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

17 m: 221 QSOs

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

20 m: 13 QSOs

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

30 m: 1 QSOs

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

40 m: 0 QSOs

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

80 m: 0 QSOs

0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

• What else do you see?  

• Spot analysis anywhere?  I believe they are working the "best" paths to all areas, comments?

73 KL2A

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