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Mega DXpeditons Honor Roll

Mega DXpedition operators vs. country of origin

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Altogether 4380 but 1851 individual operators from 101 different countries have taken part in 456 Mega DXpeditions.

Note: We count only the local operators but not the remote operators in case of RIB (Rig In a Box) operations such as VP6A Ducie Island.

The following countries have sent the most operators:

All operators vs. countries
Prefix Country OPs
K United States of America 831
DL Federal Republic of Germany 656
I Italy 367
F France 346
UA * Russia 170
SP Poland 153
G England 139
JA Japan 121
VU ** India 107
ON Belgium 106
EA Spain 96
OK Czech Republic 91
OH Finland 86
PA Netherlands 82
EI Ireland 80
VE Canada 74
YU Serbia 72
HB Switzerland 52
Individual operators vs. countries
Prefix Country OPs
K United States of America 350
DL Federal Republic of Germany 184
F France 106
I Italy 91
UA * Russia 79
VU ** India 74
JA Japan 65
G England 60
SP Poland 47
OH Finland 43
PA Netherlands 43
VE Canada 41
YU Serbia 40
EA Spain 37
ON Belgium 36
VK Australia 33
UR Ukraine 32
PY Brazil 27
By continents
Continent OPs
EU 2830
NA 952
AS 339
SA 116
OC 110
AF 32

* UA, UA2 and UA9/0 are summarized as Russia.

** India might look astounding in this list but it includes for example the Andaman Island Hamfest in VU4 (2006) with a high number of VU participants.

The number of Mega DXpeditions grouped by country of origin of the operators:

Prefix Country OPs
K United States of America 162
DL Federal Republic of Germany 148
I Italy 89
F France 72
SP Poland 67
JA Japan 66
UA European Russia 53
ON Belgium 41
PA Netherlands 40
G England 39
VE Canada 37
HB Switzerland 29
EA Spain 28
OK Czech Republic 28
OH Finland 26

Note: Be careful with these figures because most DXpeditions are multinational. In the list above 162 DXpeditions have had for example US members but mostly also members from other countries.