DX Expedition Albania 2012 - 27 Sep to 4 Oct 2012

David OK6DJ, Petr OK1FCJ and Pavel OK1DX decided to visit this close but rare DXCC country. Organized by David, equipment supplied mostly by Peter and Pavel. Private callsings ZA/xxxx were used (failed to get a common contest call). The total QSO number is around 10000, including that in CQWW RTTY contest (MultiOp SingleTx category). The QTH in resindential area was quite noisy, esp. on low bands, sri.

The license
License ZA/OK1DX

The participants (L2R OK6DJ, OK1DX, OK1FCJ)
Common picture

Result in CQ WW RTTY contest
CQWW RTTY award

QTH in Durres, WW loc JN91RH. Ants - spiderbeam, vertical, dipole for 80m, 40m wire for 160m.
QTH

QTH - picture taken from nearby hill
Durres

K3 station - operator OK1FCJ
Elecraft K3

TS850 station - operator OK1DX
Kenwood TS850

OK6DJ cooking
OK6DJ

Spider beam installation
Spider

40-30-20-17-15-12-10m vertical
Vertical

Tirana - partizan monument
Partizan

Tirana - Svejk beer
Svejk

Departure photo, with all equipment at Tirana airport
Departure

We have 3 sponsors (thanks to all of them): XYL OK1FCJ, XYL OK6DJ and XYL OK1DX. Logbook search for ZA/OK1DX is here.