Today we got the QSL cards from QSLShop.com.

We finished our operation this morning at 00:10 UTC after 27371 QSOs. We took down the 30m and 40m antennas at nighttime and the low band antennas in the early morning. We are tired but meanwhile on the way back home with a stop in Johannesburg.

Sincere thanks to the great hotel crew, we enjoyed our stay very much. The hotel manager brought us to the airport. We recommend the hotel for radio purposes, it was fun!

We are beginning to take down the station tonight. The plane to Johannesburg departs at 8 UTC from Maun Airport. This means we have to take down the baem antennas at daylight. We continue to operate the low bands next night as far as possible.

Conditions haven't improved much since the beginning. Also, 80m hasn't improved really.

Nothing is happening on 160. Several skeds without success.

40m was open much longer last night. 80m was in bad shape, Sigi had to fight for the 70 QSOs before sunrise. 30m didn't open at all this morning as well as the other bands. We do our best but there is nothing we can do about bad propagation.

80m was running well during the second half of the night. However we were confronted with the old problem that many stations send their call signs just once. This is very often not enough to copy a complete call sign. We worked many NA but also EU, AS and SA came through with same signal strenghts in the large pile-ups. Not much yet on 160, we need to further test it.

Everything else is fine. The equipment is running well. We just have a couple of minor transport damages on a pair of meters. We have sunshine every day, it is dry. The Sedia Riverside Hotel is supporttng us very well. We even got supporting mast material.

This afternoon we want to begin with RTTY.