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3B9C and stuffing the
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 John,
G3WGV reports on the clear up activities at 3B9C.
On Tuesday, we we started packing the container. The first truck load took
all the antennas except for the Titanex verticals, together with all the
aluminium masts and some of the radios. We were blessed with good weather
and apart from the sweltering heat in the container, everything went
smoothly.
Meanwhile, back at the Cotton Bay Hotel, other members of the team were
winding up kilometre after kilometre of coaxial cable. The final batch of
radios were packed and the data network was decommissioned. Backups of just
about every file created during the DXpedition, including almost 2GB of
digital photographs were burned onto CD for safe transport through airport
security and back home.
By 17:00 local, the whole of 3B9C was packed away and exhausted, we
collapsed into the bar for some much needed medicine. It's now 22:30 local
time on Tuesday and I am writing this in a room that is eerily quiet after
all these weeks of frenetic activity. The only thing left running is a
single PC giving us Internet access.
Today we will complete trucking the equipment to Port Mathurin and packing
of the container - a task that will take most of the day. In the evening the
hotel management has organised a party for us and with a bit of luck we will
all manage to stay awake long enough to enjoy it!
 Webmaster
Nigel, G4KIU takes a look back at web site activity
during the operation.
The 3B9C team were amazed by the popularity of the web site during the
DXpedition.
We were able to measure the number of pages viewed each day, while we were
on the island.
Total viewed before DXpedition: 68,493
Total viewed during DXpedition: 528,474
Daily average during DXpedition : 21,139
The statistics recorded below cover the DXpedition operation.
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Date |
Pages Viewed |
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Mar 19 |
6,643 |
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Mar 20 |
19,770 |
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Mar 21 |
23,637 |
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Mar 22 |
32,768 |
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Mar 23 |
37,401 |
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Mar 24 |
34,579 |
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Mar 25 |
31,624 |
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Mar 26 |
34,135 |
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Mar 27 |
21,114 |
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Mar 28 |
23,735 |
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Mar 29 |
30.361 |
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Mar 30 |
25,906 |
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Mar 31 |
24,267 |
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Apr 1 |
20,589 |
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Apr 2 |
17,347 |
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Apr 3 |
18,436 |
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Apr 4 |
15,656 |
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Apr 5 |
18.240 |
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Apr 6 |
17,530 |
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Apr 7 |
14,987 |
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Apr 8 |
13,762 |
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Apr 9 |
12,310 |
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Apr 10 |
13,746 |
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Apr 11 |
16,058 |
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Apr 12 |
17,815 |
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