[SADXA] FW: Thanks from TX4T

[Keith KR7RK]

Some of  you may be interested in this message from TX4T

 

From: Jacques Saget [mailto:f6bee at free.fr] 
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 3:37 PM
Subject: Thanks from TX4T

 

Dear fellow DXers

On behalf of all the 4 operators of TX4T, thank you VERY MUCH for sending a
donation towards our expedition.



It is very much appreciated at this point and it will cover the shipping
fees for sending a full-size linear from France
to French Polynesia as well as the extra luggage all of us had to pay to the
airlines for the "small" extra bags we were 
traveling with ! Surf board and wake board bags are good to carry antennas
and they look more familiar there than ski bags !
 
We are sure that these heavy items helped us having a decent signal
especially on 160m, one of the 2 bands
targeted by our DXpedition.
Thanks to you, we think it has been a successful operation apparently
appreciated by the majority of DX operators
and we also appreciated to work all of you.
 
 
We will send you direct the QSL cards you deserve as soon as they are
delivered from the printer. 
10000 cards have been ordered on March 2nd with 1000 to be delivered by Air
Mail !
 
The web page has not been updated but in fact we had more and better
equipment than planned. in the 8 days when all 4 operators
were on site, we had 3 stations running simultaneously, according to
propagation and operator tiredness:
- K3 + Alpha-76A (upgraded with a pair of 3CX800)
- K3 + THP 1.1 Kfx solid state linear (only 10 kg, in my carry-on luggage -
very cool and reliable at 600/700 Watts out)
- K3 barefoot on 30m, good enough for Nigel to make 3600 CW QSOs in 8 days!
All 3 laptops were networked by ethernet and wifi, running Win Test
software.
 
Antennas:
160m = Top loaded vertical on a 26m Spiderpole, with 2 elevated radials over
the ocean
80m = 2 element phased array, fixed to the north (south is the mountain !),
on two 18m Spiderpoles
40m = quarter wave vertical with 10 radials, 2 to 4 m from the ocean, also
used on 15m
30m = quarter wave vertical with 4 elevated radials with the ocean on 270°
2m below it
20, 17, 15, 12, 10m = Spiderbeam at 9m ASL / AGL
12 +17 m: Trapped vertical with 2 elevated radials on each band (for 8 days)
Two 110 m beverages to USA/Europe and to Japan, both with a "ground" post in
the ocean.
 
We didn't apply for any club or corporate sponsor.  Only Spiderbeam proposed
us good discounts and the
guys at Win-Test are friends and went to my contest station (TM2Y) in
Western France to work TX4T on a couple of bands.
 
 
I hope you all worked us on as many bands as you wished.
 
Best 73 and DX
 
Jacques, F6BEE - Team leader TX4T