Well, it’s our last day in the British Virgin Islands! Yesterday, we were able make a number of contacts on a variety of bands. Early in the day, I was able to run a small 12m SSB pileup with a lot of great DX stations coming in. We also went to the beach for my second RS-44 pass which went much smoother than Saturday’s with much better behaved operators. After that, we headed back to the house, and I found 6m was open. I was able to make a dozen or so 6m FT8 contacts but never got anyone on SSB. It appears that the opening started while we were at dinner (of course!) so I just caught the tail end of it. I ran FT8 on 30m the rest of the evening which was very fruitful!
We woke up early this morning (around 4am) to get our radios on and logging data for the Meteor Scatter QSO Party before going back to sleep for a bit. I was running 6m MSK144 and heard a few stations. I’ll be wrapping that up shortly.
For the rest of today, we plan to be on the air until 12 or 1pm eastern time. Hoping I can score another 6m opening and make some sideband QSOs. Our flight leaves around 4pm, and I get back to Kansas City after midnight.
Thank you to everyone who has tried to work us while on this short DXpedition! We are hoping to get LOTW updated by the end of the week, and you can QSL direct to KD8RTT with a SASE for contacts from either Andy (VP2V/KK4LWR) or me (VP2V/KD8RTT). I will write a debriefing post soon which will include some more photos and thoughts about how it went, so stay tuned for that!