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The last
QSO in the log is dated Monday, March 31, 17:45 UTC
QSO total in the online log: 48,064 |
| STØRY
DXpedition News |
| We
will provide news about the STØRY DXpedition here on this page before,
during and after the DXpedition. The news are updated by Bernd, DF3CB. |
| Sept
7, 2003 |
| QSL
status: Chris has answered all QSL requests that were received until
the end of August (19,400 !!). By now you should find your QSL in the mail
box. |
| Chris,
DL5NAM, is now the QSL manager for ST2BSS. You can find Magdi
almost daily on 15m. Check 21260-21280 kHz at various times between 1300-1900z. |
| July
6, 2003 |
|
| We
have to sets of QSL cards. The first set is for the bureau QSL's
and the ones requested via our Online QSL Request
System - OQRS. All requests were already sent via the bureau in June!
We have also handed out a big bunch of ST0RY QSLs at the Friedrichshafen
HAM Radio fair. We expect the second set of QSL cards from the printer very
soon. As soon as they arrive we start direct QSL mailing. |
| We
are happy to hear that the ST0RY expedition was chosen as the Southwest
Ohio DX Association Expedition of the year. Thank you very much! |
| May
11, 2003 |
| We
have added a few more pictures to the ST0RY Pictures
page. The QSL layout is now at the printer and the cards will be printed
very soon. |
| Apr
17, 2003 |
| We
are glad to present the final STØRY QSO statistics! |
| The
band/mode breakdown shows all 48064 QSOs, including 1922 (!)
dupes: |
| |
SSB |
CW |
RTTY |
|
|
Multi-Band
QSOs |
|
10-Band
QSOs |
| 160m |
2 |
1261 |
0 |
1263 |
|
1-Band
QSOs |
7747 |
|
4N7ZZ |
| 80m |
206 |
2678 |
0 |
2884 |
|
2-Band
QSOs |
2927 |
|
IK1RLI |
| 40m |
457 |
3590 |
0 |
4047 |
|
3-Band
QSOs |
1664 |
|
IK7MCJ |
| 30m |
0 |
3470 |
0 |
3470 |
|
4-Band
QSOs |
1151 |
|
|
| 20m |
4179 |
2881 |
1607 |
8667 |
|
5-Band
QSOs |
946 |
|
|
| 17m |
2542 |
3236 |
0 |
5778 |
|
6-Band
QSOs |
538 |
|
|
| 15m |
5356 |
2571 |
1354 |
9281 |
|
7-Band
QSOs |
399 |
|
|
| 12m |
2188 |
3835 |
0 |
6023 |
|
8-Band
QSOs |
360 |
|
|
| 10m |
4183 |
2046 |
335 |
6564 |
|
9-Band
QSOs |
300 |
|
|
| 6m |
87 |
0 |
0 |
87 |
|
10-Band
QSOs |
3 |
|
|
| |
19200 |
25568 |
3296 |
48064 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| The
number of 8- and 9-band QSOs is amazing! Congrats to the few ones with 10
bands! |
| This
is the breakdown by continents, bands and modes, excluding the dupes: |
| |
|
160m |
80m |
40m |
30m |
20m |
17m |
15m |
12m |
10m |
6m |
ALL |
percent |
| North
America |
CW |
226 |
867 |
1271 |
1316 |
946 |
1111 |
1046 |
621 |
188 |
0 |
7592 |
15.8
% |
| South
America |
CW |
1 |
13 |
57 |
52 |
23 |
57 |
72 |
39 |
40 |
0 |
354 |
0.7
% |
| Europe |
CW |
897 |
1469 |
1664 |
1349 |
1320 |
1762 |
1128 |
2953 |
1562 |
0 |
14104 |
29.3
% |
| Asia |
CW |
129 |
321 |
592 |
731 |
576 |
285 |
306 |
201 |
245 |
0 |
3386 |
7.0
% |
| Africa |
CW |
6 |
8 |
8 |
14 |
5 |
18 |
18 |
18 |
10 |
0 |
105 |
0.2
% |
| Oceania |
CW |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
11 |
3 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
27 |
0.1
% |
| CW |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
53.1
% |
| North
America |
SSB |
0 |
98 |
195 |
0 |
857 |
417 |
579 |
216 |
352 |
0 |
2714 |
5.6
% |
| South
America |
SSB |
0 |
1 |
10 |
0 |
52 |
21 |
37 |
19 |
70 |
0 |
210 |
0.4
% |
| Europe |
SSB |
2 |
103 |
233 |
0 |
2383 |
2022 |
4343 |
1750 |
3387 |
86 |
14309 |
29.8
% |
| Asia |
SSB |
0 |
4 |
17 |
0 |
839 |
64 |
360 |
176 |
304 |
1 |
1765 |
3.7
% |
| Africa |
SSB |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
28 |
18 |
31 |
26 |
57 |
0 |
162 |
0.3
% |
| Oceania |
SSB |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
20 |
0 |
6 |
1 |
12 |
0 |
39 |
0.1
% |
| SSB |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
39.9
% |
| North
America |
RTTY |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
407 |
0 |
174 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
584 |
1.2
% |
| South
America |
RTTY |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
36 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
49 |
0.1
% |
| Europe |
RTTY |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
916 |
0 |
1022 |
0 |
311 |
0 |
2249 |
4.7
% |
| Asia |
RTTY |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
234 |
0 |
149 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
392 |
0.8
% |
| Africa |
RTTY |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
14 |
0.0
% |
| Oceania |
RTTY |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
8 |
0.0
% |
| RTTY |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6.8
% |
|
| Apr
9, 2003 |
| The
complete log is now available with the first corrections. 490
DXers have already used our Online QSL Request System OQRS
to request ST0RY QSL cards via the bureau and have entered more than
2000 QSOs. |
| Apr
4, 2003 |
| The
group arrived well back home yesterday! Chris, DL5NAM, reports: |
| Hello,
we are save back home and in more or less good condition. |
| We
would like to say thank you for the good work to all of our friends acting
in the background like our pilots. They were important for us to transfer
all important messages and to give us the needed informations. |
| Also
our great thanks to all of our sponsors that provided us with
the chance to use the right equipment for the low bands. Cargo costs were
very high and customs fees were even higher than the costs of material! |
| We
stayed in Khartoum at the place of the Sea Scouts (ST2BSS). We donated them
equipment to build up a permanent station. The got help from us and we will
support these guys in the future too. They didn't ask, we simply do! |
| We
finally have made more than 48,000 QSOs. It's very impressive how
many 9-band QSOs we find in our log! We will very soon publish some statistics
on this website as well as more pictures. |
| For
QSLing: please follow our rules. We QSL via bureau,
online via our OQRS or direct. If you send
direct, please send us a SAE and the needed postage. We receive for example
US stamps; sorry, but they are useless here in Germany! We also receive
old German stamps. They are not valid anymore unless they have the Euro
sign on it. We are forced to return these kind of problems via the bureau. |
| Our
best regards to and will see you on our next DXpedition! |
73
Chris
DL5NAM
Team Leader ST0RY |
| Apr
3, 2003 |
| There
was a bug in OQRS with time validation. If you had problems submitting
certain QSO times, please submit your data again!
You may submit QSO as often as you want. |
|
Apr
1, 2003
|
| STØRY
is QRT! The last QSO was on Monday, March 31 at 17:45. The team began
to disassemble the entire station afterwards. The last news and logs were
sent from an Internet cafe in Khartoum. All equipment is now packed and
there is one more day for checking the cargo and for some sightseeing. Everyone
of us is satisfied and doing fine. |
| We
will publish some QSO statistics here as well as pictures of the DXpedition
when the team is back. |
| Let's
wish the team a safe return home! We all hope you enjoyed the ST0RY operation. |
| We
have prepared an Online Form to request QSL cards for ST0RY via the bureau.
If you want to receive your ST0RY QSL via the brueau, this is something
for you. It is now available! Click here for more
information. |
| Mar
31, 2003 |
|
The WPX
contest was rather successful for us with almost 9,000 QSOs
and we are now close to 50k. Last night on 160m CW we worked 28 more JA
and one HL3. However the SSB contest caused a lot of QRM. No trace of
VK on 160. We listen at every sunset. At midnight conditions dropped and
we started to work 80m SSB. We are going to continue working 80m
(75m) SSB during the next nights.
|
| When
transmitting on the 160m vertical, we cause interference in TV. Therefore
we often start low band operation not until 20z. TV is the national
sport #1 here in Sudan... 30m causes TVI too. |
| On
Tuesday we will begin disassemmbling the antennas. The 160m antenna
that can be tuned on 80, 40, 30 will stay and possibly another antenna too.
One station will be on the air from Tuesday to Wednesday. On Wednesday,
shortly after sunrise, ST0RY will go QRT. The equipment has to be sent
back by cargo. |
| Mar
29, 2003 |
| ST0RY
is active in WPX Contest SSB this weekend. This is your chance to
work them on SSB, also on the low bands. A second station is active on the
WARC bands. The first pictures of the ST0RY operation are available on the
Pictures page! There will be no log updates
during this weekend. |
| Mar
28, 2003 |
|
Everyone
of us is in good condition and all the equipment is running very well.
We will participate in the WPX SSB Contest this weekend!
There will probably be no log updates during the weekend.
|
| |
|
CW |
SSB |
RTTY |
|
| |
160m |
942 |
2 |
0 |
944 |
| |
80m |
2117 |
0 |
0 |
2117 |
| |
40m |
3158 |
0 |
0 |
3158 |
| |
30m |
3051 |
0 |
0 |
3051 |
| |
20m |
2483 |
1757 |
1382 |
5622 |
| |
17m |
2492 |
1843 |
0 |
4335 |
| |
15m |
2426 |
2044 |
799 |
5269 |
| |
12m |
3036 |
1593 |
0 |
4629 |
| |
10m |
1371 |
1152 |
332 |
2855 |
| |
6m |
0 |
74 |
0 |
74 |
| |
|
21150
|
8391
|
2513
|
32054 |
|
| Mar
27, 2003 |
| Another
good day, however not as good as Thursday. Another 4,800 QSOs came into
the logs. |
| By
the way, did you know that two other members of Dietmar's (DL3DXX) radio
club DF0SAX are on DXpedition too? There is a group of six (now five) other
Germans on Tonga active as A35XM.
Check their webpage too! |
| Mar
26, 2003 |
| Good
propagation yesterday, it was our best day so far with some 6,000
QSOs from 40m to 10m. We will look again for W6/W7 tonight on 20m. There
was no propagation last night on 80m and 160m! Just
two Europeans! |
| We
slowly get used to living with the sand. There was a dust storm all
day long yesterday. We will bring some of the sand back home, at least we
can't get rid of it. |
| Sudan
Television visited us yesterday and filmed a report about us that will
be shown on Sudan TV! |
| We
stay here in a sea scout club. The have a ham here and will set
up a station. They get a transceiver from one of the sponsors
as well as a G5RV antenna. They will start to teach the boys here and they
are asking us questions all day long: "What is VSWR?" "What
cable is this?". And so on. They will be active in next the Jamboree
on the air (JOTA). The main ham was last year in E20 for the JOTA event. |
| One
of the local guys here came with a sheet of paper and a pen and draw each
device here in our shack! |
| A
pilot's note: We get so many requests like "When will they be
again on the low bands?", "When will they operate 20m RTTY again?"
and so on. We, the pilots, have no operating schedule! One rule is:
if the high bands run well, like yesterday, they appear on the low bands
later and vice versa. Please respect. Thanks! |
| Mar
25, 2003 |
|
All antennas
are up and all OP's are in good condition. We have to be very careful
because of local disturbances from students here in town. You know
why... However, we have a save place here at the river Nile and our hosts
here are great.
|
| The
current QSO count on March 25, 0407 UTC is: |
| |
|
CW |
SSB |
RTTY |
|
| |
160m |
679 |
0 |
0 |
679 |
| |
80m |
1811 |
0 |
0 |
1811 |
| |
40m |
2067 |
0 |
0 |
2067 |
| |
30m |
2148 |
0 |
0 |
2148 |
| |
20m |
1001 |
554 |
1198 |
2753 |
| |
17m |
1251 |
576 |
0 |
1827 |
| |
15m |
900 |
927 |
634 |
2461 |
| |
12m |
1053 |
671 |
0 |
1724 |
| |
10m |
1042 |
237 |
0 |
1279 |
| |
6m |
0 |
68 |
0 |
68 |
| |
|
11952
|
3033 |
1832 |
16817 |
|
| Yesterday
we put up the second Titanex V80 vertical and the 6 meter beam.
It's really hot during the day. We got very tired and operated only two
stations during most of the night - that's why no high bands CW yesterday. |
| On
40m and 80m it's nearly impossible to let the East Coast QRX while
asking for more western station. The best way seems to work as much stations
as possible to thin out the pileup. On 40m we reached a number of W6 and
7's. On 80 we were able to work just a few stations from W6 and W7
but condx went down a bit. |
| We
found out that the second vertical is more quiet but about one S-unit down.
Can hear much better using this one for reception, also on 160
meters when transmitting on vertical #1. In case when we are on 80 and
160 simultaneously, it's not possible to use the second receiving antenna.
160 meters has a S7..8 noise floor and we thought a lot of station called
us this morning but no way to read these signals down in the noise.
|
| So
far we concentrate on CW and RTTY. If you want to work ST on the high bands/SSB,
work Claudio, ST2CF. However we plan to participate in the WPX
contest. So expect more SSB QSOs next weekend! |
|
We had the
first six meter opening into South Europe. Unfortunately, we cause
some TVI. Watching TV is the national sport here. The unemployment rate
is extremely high. Catering is no problem however.
|
Best
regards
The ST0RY team |
| Mar
24, 2003 |
| We
are glad to announce that we, the pilots, now have e-mail contact with the
ST0RY group and that we can pass information to them and receive news and
log updates from them. The Online Log Search is now active, see above. |
| Greetings
from the team-leader Chris, DL5NAM. He says: |
| "We
have had a lot of problems finding an appropriate QTH but we came finally
on the air on March 20, 2000 UTC. Till March 23, 0300 UTC, we had
8669 QSO's in log. 514 on 160m, 1136 on 80m, 1386 on 40m, 1730 on
30m and approx. 900 on RTTY. |
| However
we don't have many US West Coast in the log yet. We try to make use
of every chance. Our propagation charts are useless, the reality is much
different. Biggest problem is always the big EU wall. |
| All
antennas are up, we have no problems. All equipment is running well and
the noise level on the low bands is acceptable. We are inside the capital
Khartoum, directly at the river Nile at the point where blue and
white Nile join. |
| We
and our equipment have the same color: brown - from the desert sand! We
don't have an internet connection here in the shack. So we have to use an
Internet cafe downtown.
Weather: we have blue sky and currently 44° C = 104 - 106 F !!" |
| One
more pilot's note: we get several requests for SSTV. ST0RY will not operate
SSTV. We are sorry! |
| Mar
22, 2003 |
| At
15z today, I got this message from Gerben PA5NT/ST2X: |
|
"Latest
news frm Sudan: The teams had made approx. 4K QSOs by yesterday evening
and their target is 35K. They stay in the apartment in a building at the
Nile and they also make use of the boy scout club which is on the shore
of the river Nile. They are using their amplifiers. ST2CF (IV3OVC) is
just about 1 km away from the ST0RY operating site."
|
|
Regards,
Gerben PA5NT/ST2X
|
| STØRY
came finally on the air at 2010z on March 20 with very strong
signals on the low bands. One station was running on 40m while the other
station switched back and forth between 80m and 160m. RTTY operation began
already on the next day, March 21, on 20m. |
| The
pilots have no e-mail contact yet with the STØRY group. We collect
information for the group however we are not able to forward it to the group
and we also have no logs yet. Please QRX and watch the news on this page. |
| Mar
20, 2003 |
| Thanks
a lot to Gerben, PA5NT/ST2X for sending us these news: |
| I
just spoke to Chris and asked me to pass the following to you: ST0RY call
sign has been issued, all team members are OK and they have just cleared
all materials from customs and start building up their station today. |
| Mar
19, 2003 |
|
PA5NT, Gerben,
reported yesterday that the German STØRY team arrived in Khartoum,
Sudan on March 17. The team expected to pick up their license from authorities
yesterday. They should start activity on the evening of March 20 or early
March 21.
|
|
I just got
news from Chris' wife. The STØRY team is doing well. They have
spent two days finding an appropriate (and safe!) QTH and have finally
got one today at the Nile river, with the help of the local authorities.
Not all of the equipment has passed customs yet however they believe it
follows tomorrow (Thursday). The estimated time of being on the air for
the first time is expected to be tomorrow (Thursday) evening.
|
| Mar
14, 2003 |
| We
are glad to announce that Yosi, JA3AAW joined the STØRY
Pilot's Team and will be the pilot for only for Japan. We have also
added a Propagation Chart and a Great
Circle Map. |
| Mar
5, 2003 |
| We
are glad to announce that the STØRY DXpedition has three pilot
stations: Bernd, DF3CB, DrBill, K6GNX and Floyd, N5FG. If you have any
problems or questions regarding the STØRY DXpedition, contact the
pilot station next to you. The pilots will be in contact with the team during
the DXpedition. |
|
Our schedule
is: We are going to leave Germany on March 16 and will arrive in Khartoum
on March 17 in the evening. We will need some two days for customs, for
the PTT and finally to select the right location for the lowband station.
There are different choices. One of them is 40km away which means a 1
1/2 hour drive.
|
| We
plan to be on the air for the first time during the night of March 20 and
21. We have no plans for sightseeing trips so we are going to devote our
full time to the radio. We are going to have two stations running simultaneously,
sometimes three stations and 6m is open, even four stations. |
|
Our main
focus are the lowbands plus RTTY. Three of the five operators are CW operators.
We don't know yet whether we will participate in the WPX contest. We are
also going to offer an online log search facility here on thgis webpage.
In the evening of April 2, Sudan time, we have to leave.
|
| Feb
19, 2003 |
| Hello
everyone. 95% of our equipment is ready for the cargo lift. We are waiting
for the 3rd amplifier yet and for another low band antenna to arrive here. |
| Please
do not send us e-mails and ask for skeds! We are not able to take care of
skeds now. Check from time to time this page. We will have a pilot station
in EU, NA left coast and NA right coast. Names and calls will given when
we start. The pilot stations will have daily contact with us. Contact me
directly if you have news for us. |
| 73
Chris dl5nam <at> darc.de |
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