VP8PJ

[IK0ZCW]

Battling blowing snow and heavy winds that repeatedly damaged several of the verticals, on 5 March the VP8PJ team was approaching 70,000 QSOs in the log. They remained active on the bands throughout Thursday, and went QRT at 1 UTC on 6 March. Plans are to depart Signy Island on 7 March, and to attempt an upload of the log once aboard the "Braveheart". A successful upload is highly dependent on the weather and the position of the ship at that given time relative to the satellite.

[IK0ZCW]

According to the latest log update, the DXpedition to the South Orkenys made 83,778 QSOs with 20,595 unique callsigns from Europe (52.67%), North America (34.78%), Asia (6.44%) and the rest of the world (6.11%). The most productive bands were 20m (19,091 QSOs), 17m (16,879 QSOs), 30m (14,762 QSOs) and 40m (14,520 QSOs); the most productive mode was CW (47.93%), followed by FT8 (32.40%), SSB (16.77%) and RTTY (2.91%). The OQRS is now up and running on https://www.m0urx.com/oqrs/logsearch.php?dxcallsign=VP8PJ. Please note that log check requests for Busted Calls, Not in Log and/or Missing Calls must be processed through the "Not in Log?" form on the OQRS. Email messages will go unanswered.