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Battling blowing snow and heavy winds that repeatedly damaged several of the verticals, on 5 March the VP8PJ team was approaching 70,000 QSOs in the log. They remained active on the bands throughout Thursday, and went QRT at 1 UTC on 6 March. Plans are to depart Signy Island on 7 March, and to attempt an upload of the log once aboard the "Braveheart". A successful upload is highly dependent on the weather and the position of the ship at that given time relative to the satellite.

According to the latest log update, the DXpedition to the South Orkenys made 83,778 QSOs with 20,595 unique callsigns from Europe (52.67%), North America (34.78%), Asia (6.44%) and the rest of the world (6.11%). The most productive bands were 20m (19,091 QSOs), 17m (16,879 QSOs), 30m (14,762 QSOs) and 40m (14,520 QSOs); the most productive mode was CW (47.93%), followed by FT8 (32.40%), SSB (16.77%) and RTTY (2.91%). The OQRS is now up and running on https://www.m0urx.com/oqrs/logsearch.php?dxcallsign=VP8PJ. Please note that log check requests for Busted Calls, Not in Log and/or Missing Calls must be processed through the "Not in Log?" form on the OQRS. Email messages will go unanswered.