QSOs & details of ours DX-pedition

In total 3852 QSOs were made from Lebanon , 2903 from Ramkin Island wth special call sign OD5RMK and 949 from Qth Beirut  . We operate from Ramkin isl. During the I.O.T.A. contest w.e. for about 30 hours with two station, one barefoot in the contest,  to which we attended as M/S DX pedition 100W and one  with amplifier, both with vertical antennas. A total of 2903 qso are in log,  61% on CW and 39% on SSB, including 1553 in the contest on which we scored more than 611,00 points. After leaving the island we proceeded with our activity from Beirut city with one of the stations, mainly during the night, a further 949  qso are in log, most of them on CW. The propagation was in general very bad since a solar storm was in progress and the bands were often dead. The local noise made the 80m band not utilizable.