Mind you this IOTA is not as rare and has been activated once this year by a JA operator to another island. Nevertheless it was still lots of fun. 20m was terrible in the evening and very few Europeans there were contacted however 15m to Europe was great. North America continued to be a bit of a no show on all bands so that’s a shame.
Here’s a breakdown of the contacts made:
1071 (96.1%) SSB
43 (3.8%) PSK31
1 (0.1%) RTTY
608 (54.5%) 15m
242 (21.7%) 20m
135 (12.1%) 10m
130 (11.7%) 40m
551 (49.4%) Europe
382 (34.3%) Asia
153 (13.7%) Oceania
24 (2.2%) North America
3 (0.2%) Africa
2 (0.2%) South America
Just for interest sake I’ve done a quick comparison between this weekend trip on Magnetic Island OC-171 in December and the weeklong trip to Fitzroy Island OC-172 in October. The clear difference is the poor 20m conditions to Europe in the late evening but fortunately 15m in the late afternoon/early evening meant that many Europeans needing this IOTA were satisfied. Poor conditions to North America continued. Another difference to the past DXpedition was the it was the ARRL 10m contest so there were quite a few VKs there to push up the Oceania percentage.
SSB 96.1% (OC-171) and 90.7% (OC-172)
PSK31 3.8% (OC-171) and 9.2% (OC-172)
RTTY 0.1% (OC-171) and 0.1% (OC-172)
15m 54.5% (OC-171) and 21.6% (OC-172)
20m 21.7% (OC-171) and 65.4% (OC-172)
10m 12.1% (OC-171) and 11.7% (OC-172)
40m 11.7% (OC-171) and 1.3% (OC-172)
Europe 49.4% (OC-171) and 70.0% (OC-172)
Asia 34.3% (OC-171) and 25.6% (OC-172)
Oceania 13.7% (OC-171) and 2.7% (OC-172)
North America 2.2% (OC-171) and 1.4% (OC-172)
Africa 0.2% (OC-171) and 0.1% (OC-172)
South America 0.2% (OC-171) and 0.2% (OC-172)
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