9U0A

Burundi - September/October 2007

Operation

Our 2007 DXpedition took us to Burundi, 9U. We were on the air between Sep 26, 2007 and Oct 9, 2007. Our callsign was 9U0A. We were active with several stations on 160m through 6m on CW, SSB. One station was exclusively dedicated to RTTY, PSK31, SSTV and one for WSJT 6m. Please check our News Page as well as the Pictures Pages 1 and 2.

 

Our equipment consisted of 4 transceivers (2 x K2, 1 x IC 706, 1 x IC7000), 3 x kW linears TY900 , a linear 9U800 for 6 m, a Titanex V80E Lowband Vertical, 2 x 18 m Lowband Vertical, a 4 square for 40, a 4 square for 30, a Hexbeam for 20/17/15/12/10, a Spiderbeam for 20/17/15/12/10, some Beverage antennas and a 6ele Yagi for 6m.

Team

Our experienced crew included:

Pilots for this DXpedition were Bernd, DF3CB and Floyd, N5FG.

Note: This is NOT the DXpedition crew!    

 

    

 

Statistics

9U0A Band/Mode Breakdown
  CW SSB RTTY PSK31 SSTV JT65 Band
160m 127 0 0 0 0 0 127
80m 1721 0 0 0 0 0 1721
40m 2546 0 0 0 0 0 2546
30m 2781 0 660 0 0 0 3441
20m 4586 3464 970 149 0 0 9169
17m 4777 2471 741 200 50 0 8239
15m 4161 1081 925 0 0 0 6167
12m 1435 117 0 0 0 0 1552
10m 475 62 0 0 0 0 537
6m 0 0 0 0 0 5 5
Mode 22609 7195 3296 349 50 5 33504

Sponsors

We would like to express our sincere thanks to all our sponsors for this DXpedition:

www.funkamateur.de www.QSL-Shop.com
Rudi - DM2XO
ex. DL7VFR		 Bert - DJ2BC
Titanex Antennas
UK Six Metre Group
Berlin DX Group Nippon DX Association (NDXA)
B&B Westafrikaspezialist Northern California DX Foundation
Lynx DX Group Spiderbeam
Southern California DX Club Danish DX Group
DX Wire
Clipperton DX Club German DX Foundation
European DX Foundation Northern Ohio DX Assosiation
Magnolia DX Association Sid - DM2AYO
SP DX Club Swiss DX Foundation
North Jersey DX Assosiation DXWATCH.COM

Individual sponsors

Marek - SP3VT
Tom - SP5UAF
Johan - ON4IQ

About Burundi

 
Country name: Republic of Burundi (short form: Burundi)
National capital: Bujumbura
Location: East Africa, bordering to the countries Democratic Republic of the Congo 233 km, Rwanda 290 km, Tanzania 451 km, 3 30 S, 30 00 E
Area: 27,830 sq km (slightly smaller than Maryland)
Land boundaries: 974 km
Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)
Climate: equatorial; high plateau with considerable altitude variation (772 m to 2,670 m above sea level); average annual temperature varies with altitude from 23 to 17 degrees centigrade but is generally moderate as the average altitude is about 1,700 m; average annual rainfall is about 150 cm; two wet seasons (February to May and September to November), and two dry seasons (June to August and December to January)
Terrain: hilly and mountainous, dropping to a plateau in east, some plains
Natural resources: nickel, uranium, rare earth oxides, peat, cobalt, copper, platinum, vanadium, arable land, hydropower, niobium, tantalum, gold, tin, tungsten, kaolin, limestone
Population: 8,390,505 (July 2006 est.)
Religions: Christian 67% (Roman Catholic 62%, Protestant 5%), indigenous beliefs 23%, Muslim 10%
Languages: Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)
Independence: 1 July 1962 (from UN trusteeship under Belgian administration)
Economy: Burundi is a landlocked, resource-poor country with an underdeveloped manufacturing sector. The economy is predominantly agricultural with more than 90% of the population dependent on subsistence agriculture. Economic growth depends on coffee and tea exports, which account for 90% of foreign exchange earnings. The ability to pay for imports, therefore, rests primarily on weather conditions and international coffee and tea prices. Food, medicine, and electricity remain in short supply. Political stability and the end of the civil war have improved aid flows and economic activity has increased.
Reference: CIA - The World Factbook -- Burundi