[OKDXA] TX5N - Australs now QRT

[Roger Simpson]

I already had worked the Australs on 10, 12, 15, 17, and 20. So I needed Australs on 30, 40, and 80. 
But Murphy smacked me down as my fan dipole for 30m / 40m quit working. It turned out that the place where the feedline was soldered to the balun at the feed point of the 30m / 40m fan dipole was corroded. I had to crank down my tower to get access to the feed point for the 30m / 40m dipole because the center feed point for the fan dipole is supported by a short rope tied to the top of the tower. I have a new balun on the way from HRO in Plano TX to fix this. The old balun had been reworked many times and I no longer had long enough leads to solder to without unwinding the wire on each end of the winding on the toroid core -- which would probably cause the balun to not work properly. 

I did work TX5N on FT8 on 17m.  So my status now for the Australs is that I have worked it on all modes, but I still need it on 30m, 40m, 80m.   

I want to try to get my  antenna back in full operation before the Andaman / Nicobar operation. I still need Andaman on 10m, 12m, 30m, 40, and 80m. I saw a note on Daily DX saying that one of the two ops for the Andaman operation had to cancel his plans to go on the DXpedition. So it is evidently going to be a one-man operation. 

73   Roger   K5RKS 
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From: Jeff Martin
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2022 6:07 AM
To: 'Oklahoma DX Association'
Subject: [OKDXA] TX5N - Australs now QRT

  The TX5N - Raivavae, Austral Islands DXpedition is now QRT after 54,198
QSOs. Their original goal, as stated on QRZ.com was 60K to 80K, so they came
up a bit short of that, but 54K is a respectable total. They seemed to be on
the 10,12,15,17,20 meter bands a lot, the lower bands not so much. There
were many days in our early mornings when we would have had propagation on
the lower bands and they were simply not there. Continent breakdown was 28%
Asia, 24% Eu, 43% NA. I saw quite a bit of whining from the Europeans on the
cluster, but that's normal, and 24% is probably about normal from the S.
Pacific. I worked them on 23 of 25 possible slots. Missed out on 60 meters
FT8 and 80 meters SSB. They only had 419 QSOs on 60 meters (none the last 4
or 5 days, I listened) and only 53 QSOs on 80 SSB, probably some W6's and
JA's. 
  All in all, not a bad operation... Nice to have an active DXpedition on
the bands to chase. How did you do? 

73,
Jeff - K5WE


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