Thanks to all of you

Thanks to all of you who called and tried to contact 5H3NP. I tried to make as many contacts as possible, but with my teaching, visiting and such it was a challenge. I made over 1050 contacts to 102 countries by last count. Hopefully, I can confirm all of those countries and make a nice DXCC out of it.

Cards will go out in January when things settle down a little. I will write a more complete summary of the trip and certainly get to talk to some of you about running a DXpedition like this. My basic advice is:

• Make contact with a local ham, get advice from them
• Get one of the logging programs figured out quickly
• Bring or acquire batteries -- local power is very unreliable
• Pray for good conditions
• Be ready to use CW for many contacts unless you can build a very high powered station
• Be ready for rude and insolent stations to interrupt your QSO's. Ignore them.
• Bring a very reliable computer and radio.
• Bring a G5RV and a MJF tuner
• Have a great time.