The venerable Tifariti Gang has just concluded their TN5R operation from the Republic of Congo.
Despite poor propagation, this was a really fun operation to work. They came onto the bands with five active stations and a rapid fire approach to making contacts. They followed the propagation and worked their pileups down in a logical and even-handed style.
I’m looking at the incredible graphics on their statistics page. I see that their daily QSO totals were nearly 8,000 contacts a day for the duration of their operation. That is an amazing rate and a difficult feat to accomplish.
Looking at their QSOs by DXCC statistic and it appears that US amateurs were significantly well represented in their logs. Their graphs also show that 15, 17 and 20 meters were their most productive bands.
Full Disclosure: I served as one of their Pilot Stations and answered a few questions. The team was greatly focused on doing a good job and exploiting any openings.
The Tifariti Gang, like the Italian Dxpedition Team always does a great job on the bands and I look forward to their next activities as they are among my favorite groups to follow.
What do you think?
Paul N6PSE
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