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    #11
    Flight from Annobon is postponed to "tomorrow". But big vertical is packed already. Only folding antenna left in operation. It means team is not QRV anymore on lower bands.
    73 Al 4L5A

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      #12
      They are QRV on 30m band using smaller vertical they had set up earlier for 30, 20 and 15m bands.
      73 Al 4L5A

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        #13
        06:30 GMT
        30000 QSOs in the log. They went QRT around 05:30 GMT to pack the remaining antennas and other stuff. If flight will be postponed again, they will put back the small vertical and continue.
        73 Al 4L5A

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          #14
          12:45 GMT
          3C0L is over. Yuris and Kaspars are in Annobon airport waiting for their departure back to Malabo.
          Will see what's up in Malabo, as they have missed their flight home which was scheduled for October 23rd 2017.
          73 Al 4L5A

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            #15
            October 26 - Update
            20:30 GMT
            Plans regarding 3C1L have changed. Yuris is in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea and he says that they plan to activate 3C1L again. He is looking for proper QTH. But they are not QRV yet. Those were pirats playing on the air earlier this evening on 80m band. The spare K3 has arrived, but has not yet passed customs.
            73 Al 4L5A

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              #16
              18:30 GMT

              SMS from Yuris: We are in new place. Folding antenna is up (20m-10m bands), finished in darkness. 3C1L will be on the air soon with one signal. 2nd K3 is not yet in our hands. "Monday" again. Tomorrow will put up other antennas. The place is beautiful. Mains voltage is OK here, big generator in operation.
              73 Al 4L5A

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                #17
                October 28 - Update 3C1L
                19:15 GMT
                Big vertical is up and tuned for 160-30m bands (no 60m) with RA6LBS match-box. So they can transmit on all bands now. Right now operating on 10.1 MHz. Not more than one signal can be put on the air until Monday at least, when hopefully they will get 2nd K3 through customs. Tomorrow will set up the smaller vertical as 2nd antenna for some bands.
                Beverage receiving antennas are not installed. Not sure yet if will be at all.
                14:20 GMT
                QRT for a while. Going to build low band antenna.
                Internet is promised to be fixed on Monday.
                73 Al 4L5A

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                  #18
                  3C1L News
                  Last Friday we moved from Malabo to Luba, which is approximately 50 km away from Malabo. We spotted this hotel before leaving to Annobon. The hotel is located on the ocean's coast and it has autonomous power supply provided by 36 kW generator. After our adventures with electricity supply in Annobon this is like heaven. We finished installing Folding antenna on Friday evening in darkness and soon started to operate. Next day also installed big vertical with RA6LBS matching unit and simple 30/20/15m bands vertical.

                  The biggest problem is that near the hotels and guest houses there is no space for antennas. Or there is neighbour's land, or jungle, if it is on the edge of village or town. 18m high vertical we placed between trees and radials put as good as we could.

                  On average we make around 3000 QSOs per day, because we work only with one transceiver. Last night we were on 160m, but there was thunderstorm nearby and big QRN.

                  The place for operation is very good.

                  The hotel promises to provide Internet, but at the moment we don't have it. When we have it we will be able to regularly upload logs.

                  On Monday morning I went to Malabo, to get spare K3 from DHL through customs. We also need to prolong visa. During the day I didn't manage to settle these questions, because the responsible persons just are not in their workplace. So I have to stay in Malabo overnight and continue tomorrow.

                  At the moment I can't say how long we will be on the air, because we have missed our flight home (23.Oct) and will have to buy new tickets.
                  73! Yuris/YL2GM

                  04:40 GMT
                  No electricity.

                  03:40 GMT
                  Heavy QRN from nearby thunderstorm. Crackles S9+20 dB each 3-4 seconds. That's why Kaspars moved from 160 to 80m. Not better QRN wise, but at least signals are a bit stronger. Otherwise nice lightning show above the sea.
                  73 Al 4L5A

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                    #19
                    3C1L News October 30 - Update
                    21:30 GMT
                    Still strong QRN on topband. Despite this 9 JAs logged on topband around their sunrise.
                    The same time Europeans were entertained by DQRMers combined with "police". "Policemen" please understand that your efforts will not help to fight DQRMers. Just ignore them and don't add more QRM on the frequency.
                    20:00 GMT
                    QRT date might be around November 8-10. To be decided soon.
                    73 Al 4L5A

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                      #20
                      3C1L October 31 - Update
                      22:00 GMT
                      66 JAs logged on 80m. Plus UA9's/UA0's. And again zoo on the frequency in Europe.
                      20:30 GMT
                      Yuris will stay one more night in Malabo. His efforts today to settle K3 and visa questions failed again.
                      Some stats from 3C0L log. 1351 dupes in the log which is 4% of total QSO count. Not so bad compared to S21ZED/S21ZEE DX-pedition in spring this year when dupe percentage was 16% - 4 times as much. Even taking into account that in Bangladesh team was using 2 different callsigns and dupes were counted after merging these logs into one, still it is at least 2 times less dupes for 3C0L than for Bangladesh DX-pedition. Not sure what changed. No Clublog upload for 3C0L during the operation - should influence in the opposite direction. Threats to not send QSL if more than 2 QSOs made per band/mode slot helped? Hard to believe that HAMs got better behaved Or may be Yuris/Kaspars more often replies with "QSO B4" instead of silently logging dupes (they mostly use single laptop here, versus several parallel laptops in Bangladesh without log sync). Anyway 1351 dupes is almost half day operation just for dupes. Unfortunately Clublog uploads were not possible to avoid some safety dupe QSOs. And also now due to problems with Internet they can not upload 3C1L log during the operation. At least not so far.
                      More 3C0L statistics you can see in Clublog Expedition charts under Statistics tab.
                      73 Al 4L5A

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