[Elecraft] TX3X K3/KPA500 DXpedition to Chesterfield Islands on the air

[Jim Brown]

K6MM has been in contact with several of the ops at TX3X. They have been 
experiencing pretty awful WX, lots of rain, very high winds. Too much 
wind to get the 80M and 160M antennas up -- although they have been QRV 
on 80 in the last 12 hours.

I worked them yesterday with 5W on 10M SSB.

Here's what he posted to the NCDXC reflector yesterday.

73, Jim K9YC

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Thus far I have been able to work these "local" TX3X operators on SSB:

40MTom, ND2T
20MRoss, K6GFJ
17MSteve, W1SRD
15MKevin, K6TD

I volunteered to keep in touch with their families while they're on the 
DXpedition.

My general sense from these "quick chats", is that they are having a 
miserable time coping with the high winds, rain, sleeping conditions, 
and Mother Nature in general on Chesterfield.  Some of this is 
documented on the internet, the latest yesterday:

http://www.dx-world.net/tx3x-chesterfield-island-dxpedition-2015/

Unfortunately their website and log search function has been down for 
several hours now: http://TX3X.com
Hopefully this is temporary.

The biggest problem has been installing their antennas, especially for 
80M and 160M because of the high winds.  Thus far, they have not been 
able to activate those bands.  The team is still in good spirits, 
however, and determined to overcome these visits from Murphy.  They'll 
be there another week.  Let's wish them good luck.  Fingers crossed.

My advice:  If you've already worked them, try to resist the temptation 
to rack up a lot of band-modes until the group has had a chance to put 
as many ATNO QSOs in the log as possible this week.  And keep watching 
those DX cluster spots.

73,
John, K6MM



On Tue,10/6/2015 11:08 AM, Wes (N7WS) wrote:
> Rolling along?  Twelve ops, seven complete 500W stations and ton of 
> antennas and 21K Q's in 6 days.
>
> E6GG with seven ops and four radios made ~ 49k Q's in 12 days.
>
> Just sayin'