After four days of chasing across three bands and yelling into the microphone until I lost my voice, I managed to work the South Orkney Islands, VP8ORK. This is the DXpedition that's presently down there.
The place looks cold! What made this hard is that they work split with the 20M SSB calling frequency being 14.190 and they receive anywhere between 14.240 to 14.250 - and it changes. You have to constantly be looking for the QSX frequency. I used my FT-450 to help spot the pileups. And seriously, dude, you would not believe the pileups. All those guys shouting sounds like downtown Cairo.
I made the contact with my Flex 3000, AL811 and the TH7 that Dieter, Randy, and Paul helped get in the air. This was my 139th country.
