Hi ALL
We are happy to share the summary of our HB0/HB9DBM, JN47sf, MW DXpedition in November 2018. You find additional information and photos of the DXpedition at https://hb9q.ch/2018/…

Results:
This was our 4th DXpedition with our “portable” station. We are very happy to report that we experienced no technical problems and suffered no damage at all. We are also very happy with the performance of our station.
We have worked a total of 131 QSOs and 108 initials on 5 bands in 5 moon-paths, one path per band! It was nice to work a total of 25 CW QSOs on the 5 bands. On all bands we were CQing for hours with no takers, so there is obviously a lot of opportunity to work more stations!

23cm:
60 QSOs (3 CW, 57 JT65c)
58 initials
20 DXCC (DL7YS, EA8DBM, ES6RQ, F1RJ, G4RGK, HB9Q, IK3COJ, JA6AHB, KA1GT, LX1DB, LZ1DX, OK1KIR, ON4AOI, PA3FXB, SM6CKU, SP5GDM, UA3PTW, VE3KRP, YL2GD, ZS6JON)
4 continents
Smallest station worked: DF2VJ 2.6m mesh dish 140W at feed (-28/R-25)

13cm:
12 QSOs (3 CW, 9 JT65c)
9 initials
9 DXCC (DL7YC, HB9Q, IK3COJ, JA6AHB, W5LUA, OK1KIR, ON4AOI, PA0BAT, UA3PTW)
3 continents
Smallest station worked: JA6AHB 3m mesh dish 100 W at feed (-19/R-17)

9cm:
12 QSOs (4 CW, 8 JT65c)
8 initials
6 DXCC (DL7YC, HB9Q, WA3RGQ, OK1KIR, PA0BAT, VK4CDI)
3 continents
Smallest station worked: VK4CDI 3.6m mesh dish 15W at feed (-26/RO)

6cm:
20 QSOs (8 CW, 12 QRA64D)
13 initials
10 DXCC (D7YC, G3LTF, HB9Q, JA1WQF, W5LUA, OK1KIR, OZ1LPR, PA0BAT, UA3PTW, UR5LX)
3 continents
Smallest station worked: UR5LX 2.4m offset dish 45W (-18/R-15)

3cm:
27 QSOs (7 CW, 20 QRA64D)
20 initials
10 DXCC (DL7YC, HB9Q, JA1WQF, W5LUA, LX1DB, OK1CA, OZ1LPR, PA0BAT, UR5LX, VK7MO)
4 continents
Smallest station worked: OK2AQ 1.2m offset dish 40W at feed (-19/R-17)

Equipment:
1.5m dish 1×2mm mesh
homemade automatic azimuth and elevation control
23cm: 100W at feed, circular, preamp at horn
13cm: 90W at feed, circular, preamp at horn
9cm: 90W at feed, circular, preamp at horn
6cm: 80W at feed, circular, preamp at horn
3cm: 50W at feed, v-pol, preamp at horn

QSL please direct with SAE to
HB9Q
P.O.Box 133
CH-5737 Menziken
Switzerland

Our QSL cards will be available  late January 2019.

Thanks a lot to all who have called and worked us and sorry to those we could not work!
Stay tuned for our next DXpedition.

Vy 73, Dan and Mark, the Q-Team