3B9C Results

Picture of the day
The team that brought you 3B9C.

Close down
3B9C has closed down.

The last QSO was made by our youngest team member, Danny, M0GMT, at 03:42UTC on 12-April. The last station in the log was LU7DW on 40m CW.

The numbers
3B9C made a grand total of 153,113 QSOs, of which well in excess of 130,000 were unique band/mode slots.

Much more detailed analysis will follow over the next few months but for now, here is the band/mode/continent breakdown. Numbers shown  in bold are new claimed world records for a DXpedition.
 

Station Breakdown
Work on decommissioning 3B9C started at first light (06:00 local) on Monday morning. Unfortunately, unlike the photographs on the web site, it was decidedly wet and by breakfast break at 08:30, everyone was soaked to the skin. It wasn't even particularly warm either - some of the heavy rain squalls were decidedly chilly! By lunchtime we had most of the antennas down and had started on the radios and computer equipment. By 17:00 local everyone was exhausted and a shower, beer and dinner were called for in quick order. Several of the team were seen to be nodding off during dinner!

Trucks at dawn
Tomorrow, the first truck arrives at 08:00 local to take the antennas and hopefully, if it isn't raining, some of the radios to the container for packing. Work will continue at the hotel, rolling up several kilometres of coaxial cable, decommissioning the large wireless LAN and packing the vast number of small items into boxes and crates for trucking to the container on Wednesday morning. Hopefully we will have the container fully packed by late on Wednesday afternoon, giving the team a few hours to relax and, perhaps sample the swimming pool before leaving the island Thursday lunchtime.

Returning home
The whole team flies back to the UK, via Mauritius. In all the journey will take almost 24 hours and then, of course some of the team members have to take onward flights to their home QTH. I think all of us will be home by the end of the weekend.

The final night at 3B9C
The last night on the air was dominated by the superb conditions on 160m and 80m. Over 100 QSOs were made on 160m and this brought us tantalisingly close the all time record for any DXpedition on 160m; 2,385 QSOs made by XZ0A. We ended up with less than 100 fewer QSOs, at 2,288.

On RTTY we comfortably exceeded our own record set at D68C and on PSK we almost doubled our previous world record score.

Inevitably as the end approached there were calls for us to be on just about every conceivable band/mode slot, regardless of whether the band was open. We really tried to be on all the bands whenever there was propagation to any part of the world but sadly there will always be some that do not make it on a slot that they wanted. This is inevitable really, yet after almost a full month of operation there should, hopefully be only a very few that missed us.

We all really enjoyed the DXpedition and I hope that you enjoyed it too. That's what it's all about after all.

Now.... where DO we go next?

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