We hope you enjoyed contacting us.
Now is time du disclose our Video.
Where do we go next ?
QSL Cards ordered
Our QSL cards were designed and ordered.
They need to be delibered to our QSL manager within the next weeks.
Cards will be sent out AFTER the Hamradio fair in June.
Please be patient, all will be served.
Logs online
All received corrections requests were handled
were are pleased to annouce that OQRS requests are now open for everybody.
ARRL LOTW will be uploaded very soon.
FT8 logs
We stil have to upload a few hundreds of FT8 QSO.
We will do it as soon as possible. we had an issue on one of the PCs, the logs are not lost, but we cannot upload for the momnt.
Thanks for your patience.
Time to leave
Our DXpedition is now fully over on the african ground,
We have boarded, you still can follow us here
Our flight AF805 will bring us from Cotonou / Benin to Paris, France
Bravo et Merci
Hello
Merci et Bravo pour cette belle aventure a la façon F6KOP….
Petite équipe, propagation pas extraordinaire mais plus de 40000 qso
Vivement la prochaine aventure avec la KOP TEAM
A bientôt
TY7C QRT
18/03/2015 12h30
TY7C is officially QRT
Thanks to all
73 de TY7C
Last night
TY7C page turns,
The last night is very difficult.
Beside that the all team is tired, that we are eaten by mosquitos, that we are sitting in the middle of a thunderstorm,that there is a SSB/CW contest on one side and a RTTY contest on the other side, we are still sitting here and calling CQ.
In few hours, we will slow down our activity, starting to unmount the low bands antennas, then the hi bands antennas.
We will continue to be active in the morning.
In the afternoon, all has to be packed and ready to load in the Taxi which will bring us to the airport.
At the time writing these line, the exact QSO count is not known, we expect to achieve 40k, which is not bad for a small team, in a not so good ranked DXCC and in a low solar activity. We still have to load a bunch of FT8 QSO, which will be done probably on monday
We just want to thank all for the fun you gave to us and for the nice pile-ups.
After coming home, the DXedition is still not finished, we still have to reply to all mails we can’t read here, correct the logs and give them to the QSL manager, design the cards, write reports, post some photos here, make the DXpeditin video , ….
The biggest still open question is:
Where do we go next ?
TY7C and FT8
We know many people don’t like this mode,
we know DXpedition mode is in Beta version,
but we also know that many people request this mode, as we get many mails about it.
Fact is that FT8 is a weak signal mode (not a low power mode as many think), It’s possible for us to detect band openings very early. So it’s maybe better for you to make a QSO with us (yes, there is an operator at the PC !) than to listen to a beacon and we don’t get the information we are heard.
As far as signals and pile-up grows up, we switch to CW or SSB. This is a traffic strategy.
We know Wsjt-x with DXped mode is buggy, but we know it handles pile-up well. Most of the problems we see comes from the hounds, who did not read instructions or setup their PC the right way. We also know that our PC clocks drift very fast due to temperature, so we adjust by hand often. Remember we don’t have internet everywhere and must go out to connect to the network.
Thanks for reading and enjoy contacting us in the mode you prefer.
We are still here till tomorrow.
friday news
Today may be a hard day,
This morning an amplifier made some problems, we were able to fix it. After close to 1 million QSO it may happen.
More difficult is the presence of more african DXpeditions this week, we have issues with finding a clear frequency for calling and listening split. The worst is 12m, where the band is very small.
We also see that FT8 DXpedition mode is understood by most, and shows it was the right choice even it’s still in beta status.
We still have 2 days of pile-up for you.
Benin 2018 DXpedition by F6KOP 